[Numpy-discussion] Broadcasting rules (Ticket 76).

[Bill Baxter]

Is that a representative example?   It seems highly unlikely that in real
life every one of the schools would have exactly 20 classes, and each of
those exactly 30 students.  I don't know anything about R or the way things
are typically done with statistical languages -- maybe this is the norm
there -- but from a pure CompSci data structures perspective, a 3D array
seems ill-suited for this type of hierarchical data.  Something more
flexible, along the lines of a Python list of list of list, seems more
apropriate.

--bill

On 4/27/06, Sasha <ndarray at mac.com> wrote:

> Suppose we study school statistics in
> different cities.  Let city A have 10 schools with 20 classes and 30
> students in each.  It is natural to organize the data collected about
> the students in a 10x20x30 array.
>
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