Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Refining statistics to a statement

March 08-March 09 highest loss rates:
Collections with more than 20 items missing from them- items: dewey (desc)
67: dewey 640 (raising children & families, cookbooks, beauty)
60: 610 (medicine & health)
39: 360 (social problems- a lot of true crime)
33: 790 (sports, games and entertainment)
31: 740 (drawing)
24: 910 (geography and travel)
23: 150 (psychology)
21: 920 (biography and genealogy)
21: 940 (history of Europe)
20: 780 (music)

These areas you could say are the more popular non fiction topics- meaning that there is more items in these collections and they are higher circulating.
After putting everything as statistics, I've found that it is better to look at the issue in numbers rather than percentages, which don't tell me what I want to know and don't solve any problems.

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