Statistics is not exactly the easiest of fields to work with. I am not talking about the “how many hits has my blog had today” type of stats, but rather, the “what is the standard deviation of today’s hits compared to the rest of the month” type of stats.
I studied a course in statistics at university many years ago, and I still shudder at some of the mathematical techniques used.
Well, as a programmer, these days, I would just use a statistics library to do the heavy lifting for me, sparing my brainpower for coding instead.
One such library I have found for JavaScript, jStat, makes inserting statistical data and graphs ridiculously easy, and there are several samples on their website detailing how to use the library.
Being a JavaScript library, this can add a lot to just about any web application.
I can think of many, many uses for this…
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