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Re:Expected arrival times for Apple products by anti-pattern on Friday March 01, 2013 @05:40PM (#5307432)
I've looked at their data, but I believe I've dropped some things that they consider releases. The whole thing is kind of subjective as to what constitutes a release or not. But no, I didn't just scrape their site. I compiled my own data from a variety of different freely available sources.
Re:Expected arrival times for Apple products by badgar on Friday March 01, 2013 @06:13PM (#5307575)
Might I ask why you built your own, knowing there was an almost identical offering in place for years? For example, did your different choice of releases cause a statistically significant shift in arrival times? I imagine you've done analysis comparing your approach to theirs.
Re:Expected arrival times for Apple products by anti-pattern on Friday March 01, 2013 @06:30PM (#5307638)
I built my own because their design, and I mean literally the way they visualize the data, isn't very good. Or rather, it's not as good as it could be. They even updated the design a year or two ago and all they did was give it a coat of paint, rather than rethinking how to best visualize the data.
Re:Expected arrival times for Apple products by ZoFreX on Friday March 01, 2013 @07:15PM (#5307794)
> I built my own because their design, and I mean literally the way they visualize the data, isn't very good. Or rather, it's not as good as it could be.

I love your approach :) it's very helpful!

Re:Expected arrival times for Apple products by badgar on Friday March 01, 2013 @07:54PM (#5307921)
That's a great reason! I agree their design sucks and yours is orders of magnitude more usable.

It's just too bad that you have to re-collect the same data. N historically up-to-date data sources for N designs is just unscalable.

Re:Expected arrival times for Apple products by anti-pattern on Saturday March 02, 2013 @12:41PM (#5310251)
Indeed. Maybe I'll post the data on GitHub or something.