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I wonder if the comments follows a Power Law (80/20 rule), or if there is a linear increase from 0 to about 100 karma points. Is there any way we could get the

by makaimc 18y ago

I wonder if the comments follows a Power Law (80/20 rule), or if there is a linear increase from 0 to about 100 karma points. Is there any way we could get the data and graph that?

jacquesm 18y ago
Here is the data for some stories on HN: -8, 8 -7, 4 -6, 9 -5, 4 -4, 2 -3, 7 -2, 9 -1, 12 0, 26 1, 656 2, 385 3, 243 4, 182 5, 133 6, 76 7, 51 8, 37 9, 38 10, 32 11, 19 12, 21 13, 15 14, 24 15, 13 16, 16 17, 10 18, 10 19, 9 20, 10 21, 4 22, 12 23, 3 24, 3 25, 6 26, 1 27, 7 29, 2 31, 3 32, 1 33, 1 34, 1 35, 4 36, 3 38, 1 39, 1 40, 2 47, 1 48, 1 49, 1 51, 2 58, 3 64, 1 90, 1 98, 1 have fun with the graphing :)

by makaimc 18y ago

I wonder if the comments follows a Power Law (80/20 rule), or if there is a linear increase from 0 to about 100 karma points. Is there any way we could get the data and graph that?

jacquesm 18y ago

Here is the data for some stories on HN: -8, 8 -7, 4 -6, 9 -5, 4 -4, 2 -3, 7 -2, 9 -1, 12 0, 26 1, 656 2, 385 3, 243 4, 182 5, 133 6, 76 7, 51 8, 37 9, 38 10, 32 11, 19 12, 21 13, 15 14, 24 15, 13 16, 16 17, 10 18, 10 19, 9 20, 10 21, 4 22, 12 23, 3 24, 3 25, 6 26, 1 27, 7 29, 2 31, 3 32, 1 33, 1 34, 1 35, 4 36, 3 38, 1 39, 1 40, 2 47, 1 48, 1 49, 1 51, 2 58, 3 64, 1 90, 1 98, 1 have fun with the graphing :)