Category: data

  • A Year of Writing 2017

    As a scientist, I am deeply fond of data. I haven’t found word counts particularly represent my effort in any meaningful way, however (especially given the difficulties of calculating a word count to represent revised material), so this year I tried out a visual representation of what I worked on: These are based on ranges,…

  • Amazon Rank

    For those of you who have not experienced one of your own, an Amazon Author Rank is basically what might be displayed in the dictionary beside “noisy” and “black box”. It ranks you against other authors on Amazon, using sales for all your books and possibly quantum entanglement from electrons on Mars, for all I,…