<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I'm working on fixing the percentages for days when not all newspapers are published. This has led me to wonder about the best way to calculate the total percentage.</div><div>
<br></div><div style>The current approach is to divide the total number of highlighted pixels by the total number of pixels. I see two possible problems with this:</div><div style>1. Larger format newspapers will be weighted heavily.</div>
<div style>2. If papers are scanned at different resolutions, the weighting of each newspaper will depend on its resolution.</div><div style><br></div><div style>1. seems potentially OK, but 2. seems bad. Is there a standard method for calculating attention across newspapers with different physical sizes?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-Ed</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Edward L. Platt<br></div><div>Civic Technology Programmer</div><div>MIT Center for Civic Media</div><div>E15-348</div><div><a href="http://civic.mit.edu" target="_blank">http://civic.mit.edu</a></div>
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