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Maybe think of it as two different graphs with the same x-axis, superimposed?
by eschutte2 15y ago
Maybe think of it as two different graphs with the same x-axis, superimposed?
- rossmasters 15y agoThat's all this is really. The left Y axis applies to the sets that involve an average score, the right Y axis applies to pickup ratio only. That said, what is a pickup ratio? Some sort of measure of extra votes over time?
- zeratul 15y agoPickup ratio suppose to measure your chance of getting from "newest" page to the "news" page. But the more I think about it the more I'm inclined to think it's just a very hot topic detection device. Pickup ratio > 1 means that the "newest" page has couple very interesting stories that are also seen on the "news" page. Pickup ratio > 2 means that there is some sort of hysteria on HN about some particular topic ...