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> Customer data sizes followed a power-law distribution. The largest customer had double the storage of the next largest customer, the next largest customer had
by sortalongo 4y ago
> Customer data sizes followed a power-law distribution. The largest customer had double the storage of the next largest customer, the next largest customer had half of that, etc
I’m no statistician, but I’m like 99% sure that’s an exponential, not a power law
There’s a world of difference. The point of an exponential is that you can ignore big things. The point of a power law is that you can’t.
- lelanthran 4y ago>> Customer data sizes followed a power-law distribution. The largest customer had double the storage of the next largest customer, the next largest customer had half of that, etc > I’m no statistician, but I’m like 99% sure that’s an exponential, not a power law I'm no expert either, but it seems correct. The power law distribution has each X value in an X/Y series decreasing by a specific factor, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law#/media/File:Long_tail.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law#/media/File:Long_tai... The exponential has each X value increasing by a specific factor, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_function#/media/File:Exp.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_function#/media/Fi...