Find a beeline in a log log scale :)

[Henrik_Volkers]

Has been done before, but I just picked some values from the Kudo leaderlist, and found again the beeline in a log-log scale.

However is shows statistically, that altenbach and Ben deserve about double the kudos than they have 😄

[Ben]

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@Henrik_Volkers wrote:

Has been done before, but I just picked some values from the Kudo leaderlist, and found again the beeline in a log-log scale.

However is shows statistically, that altenbach and Ben deserve about double the kudos than they have 😄

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Hmmm...

Maybe I should add a line to my signature asking for Kudoes and/or stop posting and wait for the Kudos before I move on. (Smiley-wink)

Ben

Edit:

I am guessing you are uisng the bulk numbers that lump together Kudos for answers and Kudos for suggestions.  That is like mixing apples and oranges so one should expect fruity results.

[BowenM]

I think the problem is that altenbach and Ben give a disproportionately higher number of kudos, resulting in artificial inflation of the lower ranks 🙂

[altenbach]

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@BowenM wrote:

I think the problem is that altenbach and Ben give a disproportionately higher number of kudos, resulting in artificial inflation of the lower ranks 🙂

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Now you are just asking for kudos, right? 😄

[altenbach]

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Henrik_Volkers wrote:

However is shows statistically, that altenbach and Ben deserve about double the kudos than they have 😄

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There probably needs to be a correction factor for longtime users, because the chance of kudos/post was much smaller in the early days. (Smaller audience, pre-lithium format, etc.).

I think a second order polynomial would work quite well for the log-log plot. 😄

[Henrik_Volkers]

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@BowenM wrote:

I think the problem is that altenbach and Ben give a disproportionately higher number of kudos, resulting in artificial inflation of the lower ranks 🙂

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I remember in the beginning of Kudos, where the first Kudos was an indicator for 'Read by Ben' 😄 😄

And who wanted a early one star rating??

Altenbach: I think a beeline is still valid. The first and last decade (no fractional ranks and Kudos here) shouldn't be weigthed that much. In my Q&D lookup only one sample is repesenting >99,5% of the users. Add the 'last' 3 ,2,1 Kudos user and the line maybe seems to need a 3. order log-log fit ? 😛 

Spoiler

Did I just say to not put too much weigth on altenbach and Ben, didn't I ?  😉 😄 😛

[altenbach]

There also is some noise, so I wonder if there are any other outliers that are not shown. For example you only show about 7 dots of the top 10, while it would be easy to show all in that interval.

And yes, the early heavy posters have a biased low kudos count. The prime example is Dennis, who has significantly more posts than me, but fewer Kudos.

[Henrik_Volkers]

I hand copied some values from the list,  I leave it to some html (de)scripters or the ones with the real database access 🙂

[Ben]

When selling cookies door to door for cub scouts I learned that I was doing good if I sold 1 for every 7 doors I knocked on. I have tried to maintain the quality of my posts to maintain 1 kudo for every other post I make and I am thankful that so many have helped me maintain that level.

And yes, I do give out a lot of kudos! I just say "thank you" more often than most. Trust me it does not hurt one bit to give out too many kudos.

Chilly Charly and I had developed some code to scrape the NI web-site and compile statistics about post counts and kudo counts. That code has been long depreciated with the changes to the forums. If you do take on such a task be aware of two issues.

1) It is only a matter of time untl the site changes and the code will have to be modified.

2) Throttle you scraping to avoid "denial of service" from the site (like I discovered).

But while we are on the topic of Kudos and counts...

Christain is just 4 kudos short of 10K kudos on the LabVIEW forum. A "Knight of Kudoes" is coming soon!

See here!

Ben

[Jacobson-ni]

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@altenbach wrote:

And yes, the early heavy posters have a biased low kudos count. The prime example is Dennis, who has significantly more posts than me, but fewer Kudos. 

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Dennis also didn't get any kudos from the idea exchange which would be another reason for the lower kudo count.