| I've been curious what the bar levels under that stats on profile pages represent. there seems to be some kind of number crunching for each list category (cw, ptw, ...) based on the number of entries. Is it perhaps relative to some user average? Maybe it's something obvious and I missed it...  |
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saka said: I've been curious what the bar levels under that stats on profile pages represent. there seems to be some kind of number crunching for each list category (cw, ptw, ...) based on the number of entries. Is it perhaps relative to some user average? That's the impression I've been getting. Say...if a bar length is of "middle length" does that mean that the stat number is at the average for that category or that the number of users with numbers above and below the number are of equal proportions? |
Terence_T said: Say...if a bar length is of "middle length" does that mean that the stat number is at the average for that category or that the number of users with numbers above and below the number are of equal proportions? That's what I'd like to know also.... kinda curious what formula is being applied here even if it's a rough estimate. The total number of users is easy to get from a mysql query. Then you'd just need either the total of all users' category totals (for average) or a sorted list of all users by each category(for median). I'm a bit sketchy on how mysql optimization might work for each of these, but I might guess the average is a bit lighter on the computing time (total of all users' totals). Just a shot in the dark, though... and I'm probably overthinking it. That's what I get for checking forums at 1am. XD |
I am a banana. |
| nobody knows what they mean then?... speculation welcome! |
I am a banana. |
| I've been curious about that as well. Like people who have complete less anime than me manage to have a longer bar and no matter how many animes I complete it barely changes length. @~@ |
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| in the hopes some class names might give me some clues, I checked the profile page code and came across some debug output in a comment. Since it's right under the stats heading, these array dumps are probably related to how they are calculated. |
sakaAug 15, 2008 11:51 PM
I am a banana. |
| What does it mean? ?^_^? |
| that's the point: I don't know exactly what it means. :) There were those couple arrays that Xinil probably decided to dump there when he was debugging something on the page (it's common to do this with php's print_r() function). There's two associative arrays there, and it looks like it's mostly just some temporary variables to calculate the colors of the bars, but it might have some meaning in the calculations as well. I'm probably just looking too far into it, but only because I'm still curious and nobody has been able to offer any ideas. It doesn't really make sense to have them there without understanding at least roughly what they represent.... :-/ |
I am a banana. |
| And there is also the matter of the darkness of each bar. |
wtfyourface said: MistaCloudStrife said: OVER 9000!!!From 100-1000, how much do you love LWL? |
| I've seen quite a few people with bar lines going all the way across the chart. I'm getting the impression that it's relatively easy for people to get their bars to go all the way across so long as they've been watching anime for enough years and have the free time and put in the effort to watch anime regularly. (That's excluding the "Time Days Watched" category when you're not including time spent anime rewatching from your list. That seems a more difficult line to increase - at least for me it would be) I wonder if a Bar Line going all the way across the chart only means that you're in the higher 10%-15% bracket or something like that? |
Terence_TAug 18, 2008 10:45 AM
freedoleen said: No, for example, look at my profile. My "Time Days" is shorter than 4 of my other stats who are all a lighter blue than it.LoveWifeLunch said: And there is also the matter of the darkness of each bar. uh... longer = darker? |
wtfyourface said: MistaCloudStrife said: OVER 9000!!!From 100-1000, how much do you love LWL? |
| Here's my shot (this might have been said above but different wording, therefore sorry if i am repeating somebody). It looks like a comparison to the average value available on MAL. Here's an example for my time(days). [next_rank_key] => 50 [current_rank_key] => 30 [next_rank_color] => 10 [current_rank_color] => 9 [maximum_value] => 220 [my_total] => 33.21 My number of days is obviously 33.21 while maximum_value 220 seems to be an average for all users (i think so after looking at the top 10 users page: there are some high ones then some really low ones and a lot that are around 200s AND that number shows up on all profile pages i bothered to look at.). The rest is easy: 220/33.21 * 100 = 15% which shows up in <td><div style="width: 100%; padding-left: 0;"><div style="width: 15%; background-color:#7191c8;"> </div></div></td> To double check the concept: maximum length of one of those bars is 145px or so; mine is 21px; 21 makes up 15% of 145. Verdict: a bar gives member's position compared to an average MAL user. |
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