Archive for the 'statistics' Category

Is Digg rigged? The numbers…

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I retrieved the last 1100 (Minus one by kevinrose, which skewed all the numbers) stories that hit the front page and found out some info about the users who submitted the stories.
Here’s what I’ve found:

Users
Stories
Fans
Friends

Total
251
1099.0
449035.0
66976.0

Average
-
4.4
1789.0
266.8

Median
-
2.0
991.0
218.0

Some graphs:
This one shows the number of stories each user had on the front page (horizontal axis) and the number of [...]

Graphing Digg Friends

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I’ve been playing around with graphviz a little bit.
It’s an interesting application that uses some algorithms I’ve been reading up on to graph different nodes in either a directed or undirected graph (and a bunch of other features that I haven’t played around with).
I thought that maybe I could use it to plot the relationship [...]

Digg Rating Extender

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Install Script (Must have Greasemonkey installed on Firefox)

I created a greasemonkey script (FIREFOX ONLY, for now) to show the digg ups and digg downs on digg stories. Here’s a picture of what it looks like now:

For those who are interested, details are below. Those who aren’t can’t just go straight to downloading the script.
Some [...]

Design

Friday, August 10th, 2007

I’m looking to redesign the digg comment statistics page. The back-end I generally have no problems with, but when it comes to design, I just have no clue.
If someone is willing to redesign my page, I’ll offer you fame, fortune, and a link on the stats page to you or your email address! (OK, one [...]