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Questions tagged [popularity]

Use this tag for questions relevant with objects/entities/etc. that support the popularity concept.

Objects/entities/etc. can be sorted by popularity. For example, websites; Stackoverflow is more popular than the Meta.

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Formula for popularity? (based on "like it", "comments", "views")

I have some pages on a website and I have to create an ordering based on "popularity"/"activity" The parameters that I have to use are: views to the page comments made on the page (there is a form at the bottom where uses can make comments) clicks…
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Popularity Algorithm - SQL / Django

I've been looking into popularity algorithms used on sites such as Reddit, Digg and even Stackoverflow. Reddit algorithm: t = (time of entry post) - (Dec 8, 2005) x = upvotes - downvotes y = {1 if x > 0, 0 if x = 0, -1 if x < 0) z = {1 if x < 0,…
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Does Silverlight have enough of an install base to consider deploying a public web application with it?

I know this question has been asked a million times in various ways by different businesses, but I'm wondering the community's opinion on it [There's this question, but in the fast-moving world of tech, a year is a long time]. For hypotheoretical…
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Is there anywhere I can find information on the relative popularity of Perl modules?

One of the problems of using CPAN is that "there's more than one module to do it". I often wonder what everyone else is using. Is there any information on the relative popularity of CPAN modules anywhere?
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Adaptive user interface/environment algorithm

I'm working on an information system (in C#) that (while my users use it) gathers statistical data on what pieces of information (tables & records) each user is requesting the most, and what parts of the interface he/she uses most. I'm using this…
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MySQL: Getting "busiest" or "most popular" hour from a datetime field?

Consider the following table which has the fields - id (int) and date_created (datetime): id date_created 1 2010-02-25 12:25:32 2 2010-02-26 13:40:37 3 2010-03-01 12:02:22 4 2010-03-01 12:10:23 5 2010-03-02…
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Adjusting Elasticsearch _score based on field value, relative to other matching document's field value

We're updating our search system from Solr to Elasticsearch. We've already improved lots of things, but something we haven't got right yet is boosting a document's (product's) score by the popularity of the product (it's an ecommerce website). This…
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Filter an RSS feed to show only more popular links

I have an RSS feed that outputs around 100 articles per day. I wish to filter it to include only the more popular links, perhaps filter it to 50 or less. Back in the day, I believe you could use "postrank" to do this, but is now defunct after Google…
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Spotify: How is a track's popularity value determined?

I've been working with the spotify meta data api, and I was trying to figure out exactly what the popularity field of a track meant (represented as a float, 1 being popular, 0 not). I checked if there was a linear correlation between the float…
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Finding the most popular likes in my friend network

I am working on a way to find the most popular likes in my friend network. "Most popular in my friend network" is defined as "having the most number of likes by my friends". Suppose each friend has an unique id and has a number of liked pages. So,…
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Popularity, How to make new hits count more than old hits?

Each product a product_date_added which is a Date field contained the date it was added. They also have a product_views which is an int field containing how many times a product has been viewed. To display products by popularity, I us an algorithm…
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Algorithm To Select Most Popular Places from Database

We have a website that contains a database of places. For each place our users are able to take one of the follow actions which we record: VIEW - View it's profile RATING - Rate it on a scale of 1-5 stars REVIEW - Review it COMPLETED - Mark that…
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What is the best way to properly integrate a "popularity" factor with zend-search lucene?

I've read this and I'm still a bit confused on how to exactly go about it. I have an unindexed field that is counting the number of votes for a set of playlists that are being searched. The main search works fine, but I also want to include the…
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Formula for popularity by day?

I've got an app that's basically a calendar, the users can enter events for each day. Now I have to find the best way to show the calendar for a full month while highlighting the busiest days. Obviously the color is the choice here, but I'm…
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Algorithm for determining which words make a phrase popular

Suppose I had a list of slogans (short, multi-word phrases), and people had voted for the ones they liked best, and I wanted to assess which words, if any, made some slogans more popular than others. What would be the best way to achieve this? My…
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