Comments on: Calculating Wind Direction per DDoE http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/calculating-wind-direction-ddoe/ Peltier Tech Excel Charts and Programming Blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:03:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/calculating-wind-direction-ddoe/comment-page-1/#comment-13559 Jon Peltier Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:14:50 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=1853#comment-13559 Matt - I've seen wind direction charts, and they are somewhat intuitive, unlike 99% of the circular or cyclical charts I've seen. Re web site statistics by hour of day: been there, done that. Last week I reasserted that <a href="http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/radar-charts-are-ineffective/" title="Radar Charts are Ineffective" rel="nofollow">Radar Charts are Ineffective</a> Matt -

I’ve seen wind direction charts, and they are somewhat intuitive, unlike 99% of the circular or cyclical charts I’ve seen.

Re web site statistics by hour of day: been there, done that. Last week I reasserted that Radar Charts are Ineffective

]]> By: Matt Healy http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/calculating-wind-direction-ddoe/comment-page-1/#comment-13556 Matt Healy Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:13:52 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/?p=1853#comment-13556 Actually, wind direction is an excellent example of the kind of data for which the methods of "Directional Statistics" or "Circular Statistics" are appropriate. Another classic example would be many cyclical data sets (for instance access to a web site versus hour of the day over many days). Here is a Wikipedia article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_statistics Most of what I know about circular statistics I learned 20-some years ago from the Batschelet book cited in the references of that article. Actually, wind direction is an excellent example of the kind of data for which the methods of “Directional Statistics” or “Circular Statistics” are appropriate. Another classic example would be many cyclical data sets (for instance access to a web site versus hour of the day over many days). Here is a Wikipedia article on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_statistics

Most of what I know about circular statistics I learned 20-some years ago
from the Batschelet book cited in the references of that article.

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