Change naming "agg" to "stat"?
Datseris opened this issue · 5 comments
So far I have created convenience functions like timemean, but tried to always have a general version called e.g. timeagg where the function that "summarizes" the data can be any arbitrary function like sum, mean, std.
But I am not a native English speaker. So far, I thought "aggregation" was this process of taking a bunch of numbers and describing them with a single number, e.g. the sum or the mean. But I've just found that aggregation means "grouping".
Should we change the naming aggregation I've used and the shorthand agg, to something else? And what is that something else? I thought of stat, but I am still not sure...
Sorry, just saw the issue actually, thanks for the ping. Generally speaking, aggregation can be used if the grouped data aggregated into a single statistical value. So, I don't mind it!
But, looking at it, I'd much prefer stat than agg.
Okay that is good for me as well, and then I'll do it in 0.8!
I did this change internally but it doesn't look that good. timestat and spacestat feel more like names that would provide inforemation about the time dimension or space dimension instead of do some kind of statistical operation on it. I'll leave the agg versions in for now later down the road we see how they look.