Pie Chart oddity

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Mon, 10/08/2012 - 12:44 — Haruo

When I look at LYNGHAM, the pie chart suggests there must be either two or three, probably 3 (out of 5) instances of its occurrence with "O for a thousand tongues to sing my", though "All instances" only shows one instance for each text, so the pie chart should be 50-50. But when I go in via O for a thousand tongues and look at "All tunes used with", there are no instances showing for "LYNGHAM", and one for "DESERT (LYNGHAM)". Yet "DESERT (LYNGHAM)" silently forwards to plain "LYNGHAM"...

Mystifies me.


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Mon, 10/08/2012 - 12:51 — Haruo

BLESSED BE THE NAME vs. BLESSED NAME as applied to "O for a thousand tongues"; I'm 99% positive they should be merged, but less absolutely certain into what. I think blessed_name_american (since it's in all probability an anonymous campmeeting tune that Hudson was the first to latch onto and publish) is a good authority ID, but I am only suggesting, will leave it to Dianne or whoever to execute. It will probably take some weeding, as "BLESSED BE THE NAME" and "BLESSED NAME" are both the kind of tune name that has doubtless been used over and over, and only those with the proper melody should be merged.

Also, since in this version of the hymn, "sing" is followed by "blessed", not by "my", perhaps they need a different text authority, too. The "blessed" in question is not the same as the "blessed" that is the first word of the refrain. Not sure what the best solution is.

Thu, 10/11/2012 - 17:15 — Haruo

Here's an illustration of two statistical errors that keep recurring:

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One problem is that it says "Published in 2 hymnals" when it actually is published in two instances in the same (one) hymnal.

The other is that (as with the pie chart problem noted previously) the pie chart shows more than 50% of the pie for one of the two instances, and less than 50% for the other. If I didn't know better I'd suspect there was a missing instance that the pie chart new about (and maybe that it was in the second of the supposedly two hymnals).

With regard to the first of these problems, perhaps the wording of the template could be changed so instead of "Published in 2 hymnals" it would say "Published 2 times"; ideally, it would say "Published 2 times, in 1 hymnal". If that were possible, then one would be alerted to anomalies like a tune that was published 13 times (with different words, perhaps, or in different keys, or whatever) but only in a single hymnal. Stranger things have happened in the world of hymnody.

But I have no clue what is distorting the pie chart, nor what to do about it.

Fri, 10/12/2012 - 12:38 — dianneshapiro

It was counting both the instance and the authority of "Mungu ni pendo..." (2 instances) and so the other text was counted as 1/3. Now we have it fixed so that authorities are not counted as instances.

Mon, 10/15/2012 - 12:36 — Haruo

That was bothering me every time I looked at a pie chart for a little known hymn.

Wed, 10/17/2012 - 12:42 — Haruo

I just created inaugural instances of two tunes by Calkin, yet they are each showing as 2 (see screenshot). However, ruining my theory about what is wrong, there is a tune by Calkin showing only one instance. If we redo the search, that one should not be there, since I merged it with WALTHAM (Calkin).

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