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Our Most Popular Articles off All Time
The number in brackets represents page views. Older post of course tend to have more page views, so please check the time-stamp when you read these messages. Starred posts are more recent. Also page view tracking started about 2 years ago, so for very old posts, the page view count is not accurate. Our top posts have generated more than 40,000 page views each. We have also included several posts that have generated a large number of comments.
- Data Science e-book: first draft available for download [48,114]
- What your state is the worst at – United States of shame | Flowingd...
- The 8 worst predictive modeling techniques [12,817]*
- Official salary of 30,000 University of Washington employees [9,865]
- 4 open source data mining tools (with GUI) [7,911]
- 5 Big Data Startups That Matter: Platfora, DataStax, Visual.ly, Dom...
- Free courses from top universities | Coursera.com [5,324]*
- Are Lottery Winning Numbers Really Random? [3,829]
- New, state-of-the-art random number generator: simple, strong and f...
- Identifying the number of clusters: finally a solution [3,473]
- Data scientists making $300,000 a year | Wall Street Journal [3,371]*
- Proposal for an Apprenticeship in Data Science [3,193]*
- Debunking lack of analytic talent [3,156]*
- Berkeley course on Data Science [3,001]*
- The next revolution in analytics: it's not about software, it's abo...
- Statistical evidence of global warming ?
- 18 great articles from top news outlets (popular series)
- Analytic startup ideas (popular series)
- Data Science Dictionary [2,756]*
- The curse of big data [2,549]*
- $33,000 to get an outdated Applied Maths degree, offering no job pr...
- Can data scientists replace business analysts? [2,202]*
- Who are the wealthiest data scientists? [2,048]*
- The top 20 data visualisation tools [1,978]
- Big data startup to fix healthcare [1,832]*
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Comment by Mirko Krivanek on January 12, 2013 at 3:35pm -
This brings an interesting question: how do you measure the popularity of an article or blog post?
Page view count is not enough. Velocity is important, as well as number of comments. The page view count can be modeled (from a statistical point of view) as an exponential distribution (growing fast in the first 24 hours, but decreasing over time). In short, it is a right-censored process (since we don't see the future) but a precise count over a 6-month time period can be computed even for a post that is just 7-day old. If you make the right adjustments, then you can compare a 7-day old post with a 2-year old one, in terms of popularity as measured by page view count.
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