♬ Badhorse, Badhorse! ♬ He's done some cool statistics, so mathematicians beware. ♬ You better go and read them or he'll make you his mare! ♬ · 9:27am Dec 11th, 2016
Sorry, I re-watched Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog recently...
Anyway, there's this guy I met back in like 2013 at a tiny MLP-con that just did some statistics magic and group authors by how many followers they share and some other stuff. Honestly, I haven't had a math class in like 12 years so I have no fucking clue what is going on in the statistics beyond that. So if anyone wants to explain without letting adhorsebay know I'm clueless that'd be great.
It seems accurate to me though, since I literally *only* ever talked to people in group 5.4, and he titled it "the cool kids", so he seems legit to me. And while our stories might not seem that similiar, apparently our followers were. Here's a little graph which shows how "edgy" and "Cool" you are on the X and Y axis. Clearly the goal is to be in the top-right in the red with us "cool kids"
Click this link to see the blog, statistics, and grouping info
And maybe answer his question:
Here's the clusters that came out when k=5. Do these make sense to you? Can you come up with names for the clusters? I can't, because there are lots of author names here I've never heard of.
Hey look he made a cool graph that I stole borrowed! Won't you be a kind follower and go check out all the other statistics now?
I can only assume bigger numbers are better until someone explains it to me, which means us people up to the top and right are WINNING!
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