Hi Aaron, Nice work. Just wondering do we have per category top rated or just overall top rated applications?
Cheers Matthew On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Aaron Peachey wrote on 23/07/11 14:09: > >... > > You may have seen the top-rated has been partially implemented (thanks > > mvo) with a new carousel on the home screen. It may not quite be > > working properly yet and otherwise still needs some work, but in the > > mean time now that the server has histograms for all packages and this > > means we now have a dampened rating for them all too, we thought it a > > good time to take a look at the data to verify the usefulness of the > > algorithm and I have attached a spreadsheet file with the rankings as > > at today (Sat 23/7/11 Australian GMT+10). > > Thanks Aaron! This is fascinating stuff. > > > It has had an interesting impact, as you can see in the spreadsheet, > > by comparing each package's overall ranking against other packages > > based on the dampened rating to the same ranking if we were using > > average rating. I would definitely say that this algorithm seems to > > provide a fairer approach to determining the 'top rated' apps but it > > is interesting which apps fit into our top 12 (gparted at #1 is not > > exactly what i was expecting!). > > I think that over time, the top rated items will balance out in three ways. > > First, as Ubuntu's user base expands and gets less techie on average, > they'll give more high ratings to other things (like games and music > players). > > Second, even current users will see the "Top Rated" section, will try > out the things in it (like GVim), will not find them as attractive as > people who have already rated them, and will give them lower ratings. > > And third, application developers will see the top rated applications, > try them out, think "hah, I could do better than that", and then do it. > > It's also possible that the Ubuntu base platform will become more > powerful and flexible, so that people feel less of a need to install > things like Cairo Dock, Filezilla, K3B, or 7zip. > > - -- > mpt > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk4q1oAACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecqnSgCfRoxW2GJdq0HEhO8YO00M3lGh > xk4AmgKpSAOVu8GIrJ4RttE0paE+xJjl > =BOgz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- >From the mind of me!
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