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Re: top rated - data analysis

 

Hi Aaron,

Nice work.  Just wondering do we have per category top rated or just overall
top rated applications?


Cheers
Matthew

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> Aaron Peachey wrote on 23/07/11 14:09:
> >...
> > You may have seen the top-rated has been partially implemented (thanks
> > mvo) with a new carousel on the home screen. It may not quite be
> > working properly yet and otherwise still needs some work, but in the
> > mean time now that the server has histograms for all packages and this
> > means we now have a dampened rating for them all too, we thought it a
> > good time to take a look at the data to verify the usefulness of the
> > algorithm and I have attached a spreadsheet file with the rankings as
> > at today (Sat 23/7/11 Australian GMT+10).
>
> Thanks Aaron! This is fascinating stuff.
>
> > It has had an interesting impact, as you can see in the spreadsheet,
> > by comparing each package's overall ranking against other packages
> > based on the dampened rating to the same ranking if we were using
> > average rating. I would definitely say that this algorithm seems to
> > provide a fairer approach to determining the 'top rated' apps but it
> > is interesting which apps fit into our top 12 (gparted at #1 is not
> > exactly what i was expecting!).
>
> I think that over time, the top rated items will balance out in three ways.
>
> First, as Ubuntu's user base expands and gets less techie on average,
> they'll give more high ratings to other things (like games and music
> players).
>
> Second, even current users will see the "Top Rated" section, will try
> out the things in it (like GVim), will not find them as attractive as
> people who have already rated them, and will give them lower ratings.
>
> And third, application developers will see the top rated applications,
> try them out, think "hah, I could do better than that", and then do it.
>
> It's also possible that the Ubuntu base platform will become more
> powerful and flexible, so that people feel less of a need to install
> things like Cairo Dock, Filezilla, K3B, or 7zip.
>
> - --
> mpt
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