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My new blog: combines Statistical Analysis with Pop Culture. Thoughts?

• hegemonicon 17y ago
  You need a layout change - this looks more like a news aggregation site than a blog. News sites are designed to lure you in with a grabbing headline. With articles such as yours, you really need to put the text in front of me immediately - the title alone isn't going to get me interested. Unless you have a compelling reason to eschew the standard blog look, I'd stick with that. I'd also suggest moving the google ads to the far right of the page. They were the first thing I saw and I was immediately annoyed by them. As far as the content goes, you need a lot more explanation as to what sort of analysis you're actually doing, and what the graphs mean. Many of your graphs and charts are extremely cryptic, and they're frequently put at the end of the post with nothing following them. Furthermore, you've got the unfortunate combination of writing in a stilted, scientific style (which really, you should never do) with posts that really don't have much scientific content to them. Overall I'd say you need to focus more on your actual writing and less on everything else.
  • spxdcz 17y ago
    Great - thanks for the comments and insight; very useful.
• kegart 17y ago
  Most of the articles aren't in depth enough compared to what my expectations are from the title nor the blog name. I'd love to see you work your way up to OK cupid style analytics, (though, they have better data than you). Did like "Foxii" though :)
• whimsy 17y ago
  If this ISN'T intended as "The Onion" meets "Stat Class" then you're doing something wrong. If that IS the intent, you're spot on.