This page shows some performance statistics about the RVC books relative to a set of contemporary textbooks that cover the topics of robotics and computer vision. Amazon sales rank for all these books is sampled hourly using the Amazon Product Advertising API. Statistics are only gathered for sales on the US store: amazon.com.
Relative performance snapshot
The most recent relative performance snapshot is shown below
The green rows are books in the RVC family. The one with author “74” is RVC1, some weirdness in the Amazon database exposed by the API.
Relative performance time series
The relative ranking of the RVC family books, within the set, is shown as a time series in the chart below
Tool chain
Sales rank sampling is performed by a cronjob which runs a Python script. The script uses a Python interface to the Amazon API and the HTML table is created using ANSITable.