We're approaching 10,000 votes, which is nice because a) it's less than 24 hours and b) I've intentionally held back from pushing it until it has various things that make Harry and the rest of us happier.
One thing that concerned me up front was that the data might be not very useful. I've asked Harry for a dump of the votes, so we can look together: mysql> select rating, count(rating) from vote group by rating; +--------+---------------+ | rating | count(rating) | +--------+---------------+ | 1 | 681 | | 2 | 887 | | 3 | 1061 | | 4 | 1266 | | 5 | 2031 | | 6 | 1371 | | 7 | 985 | | 8 | 674 | | 9 | 288 | | 10 | 196 | +--------+---------------+ NB This isn't the distribution of scores (averages) instead showing just raw votes. To my extremely inexpert eye it looks OK for heatmap making purposes - no one vote option is getting more than 20% percent of the votes. Also it looks like either a) we're a bunch of quite harsh critics or b) England has more nasty bits than truly lovely ones :) What do those of you with more statistical talent than me think? Bearing in mind that the purpose for building the game - to generate the sceniciness heatmap - is the only real purpose for doing this project, your thoughts on the usefulness of data coming out are much appreciated, before I really shout about it. best, Tom 2009/4/4 Harry Metcalfe <[email protected]>: > That's there -- previously, you clicked the title of the place to see a > map. I've made that a bit clearer now. > > Harry > > > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 21:13 +0100, Etienne Pollard wrote: >> And maybe a google map showing where it is in the uk? >> >> On 03/04/2009, Tom Loosemore <[email protected]> wrote: >> > agree that it's a lovely, gentle, visual tour of the UK >> > >> > a counter of how many have been done in total would be a nice starter >> > for those with a competitive urge... >> > >> > >> > 2009/4/3 Tom Steinberg <[email protected]>: >> >> There are a few possible, which we'll obviously have to do better to spell >> >> out: >> >> >> >> 1) The next picture might be the most wonderful and unknown corner of >> >> the UK. You might be about to discover arcadia, with the next click. >> >> >> >> 2) See how your aesthetic judgements compare to others >> >> >> >> 3) Future possible - have I done more than other people? >> >> >> >> I think 1 is way more important than others, but only a few percent of >> >> people will feel that drive, I guess. >> >> >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> >> >> On 4/3/09, Tom Loosemore <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> it's nice and that, but where's the game bit? >> >>> >> >>> what's the payoff? where's the fun? >> >>> >> >>> 2009/4/3 Harry Metcalfe <[email protected]>: >> >>>> http://games.mysociety.org/scenic/ >> >>>> >> >>>> I've been working on this for the last week or so. It's a new game that >> >>>> we've made to produce a dataset of pretty places. We're going to use >> >>>> that for a new (currently secret) project. >> >>>> >> >>>> There's a bunch of stuff I want to fix which I'm going to do next week, >> >>>> but we wanted to get it out there for the weekend, so here it is. Do >> >>>> have a play and pass the link around. >> >>>> >> >>>> Let me know if anything breaks, or you have any thoughts! >> >>>> >> >>>> Harry >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> Mailing list [email protected] >> >>>> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >>>> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Mailing list [email protected] >> >>> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >>> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Mailing list [email protected] >> >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list [email protected] >> > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> > >> >> > -- > FYI: > > I no longer use [email protected]. It will still work for the time being > but my new address is: > > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
