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author | Yorhel <git@yorhel.nl> | 2014-09-15 14:14:26 +0200 |
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committer | Yorhel <git@yorhel.nl> | 2014-09-15 14:14:26 +0200 |
commit | f24522cea27c66b5e217c168d1f780f22fa3ef63 (patch) | |
tree | 82f41a9297b479efa4b039ec94e08478f795f804 | |
parent | 5b5457e380d82567f59d1da92f8e0c81bc3100b9 (diff) |
Change normalization factor in popularity ranking calculation
Suggested by Hinoe, quoting his reasoning:
In popularity rankings, change the normalization from
"sqrt(LowerVoteCount)" == "LowerVoteCount^0.5" to something that grows
somewhat more slowly.
Details: Natural logarithm itself (ln(LowerVoteCount+1)) is too slow;
at the current VN count (15403), it returns 9.64; however, sqrt(15402)
is just above 124.1, which I feel is already too high. After
experimenting with the exponents a bit, I decided that the best point
likely lies between 0.3, which returns a bit above 18.0, and 0.4,
which returns a bit above 47.3. Thus, I suggest that the new function
be LowerVoteCount^0.36788; the exponent is a 5-digit approximation of
e^-1, just because it's a nice number in the specified area and works
well, returning circa 34.7.
-rw-r--r-- | util/sql/func.sql | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/util/sql/func.sql b/util/sql/func.sql index 6f51a6b2..3923ffb5 100644 --- a/util/sql/func.sql +++ b/util/sql/func.sql @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ BEGIN -- the following queries only update rows with popularity > 0, so make sure to reset all rows first UPDATE vn SET c_popularity = NULL; CREATE OR REPLACE TEMP VIEW tmp_pop1 (uid, vid, rank) AS - SELECT v.uid, v.vid, sqrt(count(*))::real + SELECT v.uid, v.vid, count(*)::real ^ 0.36788 FROM votes v JOIN votes v2 ON v.uid = v2.uid AND v2.vote < v.vote JOIN users u ON u.id = v.uid AND NOT ign_votes |