28 Dec
2009
28 Dec
'09
9:42 p.m.
Man, this thread really drums up some nitpicks of mine regarding the current, somewhat arbitrary, ways of establishing package usage & popularity. I won't rehash my old arguments here, but if you're looking for a "better" statistical way of ranking popularity using a voting system, you might want to take a look at a Wilson score confidence intervals: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html You'd probably need to compare something like downloads to votes since we don't really have/need up and down votes, but it could make sorting by statistical popularity a bit more accurate. -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer