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Trends and patterns in TV series episodes’ rating
TV series are a planetary mass phenomenon. The P2P traffic figures speak for themselves. TV series episodes are available immediately after (and even sometimes before) broadcast on P2P networks. The folks at torrentfreak, a P2P focused news site publish regularly a list of the most exchanged TV series on P2P networks.
This offers a good terrain […]
Digging through Rapleaf’s study on gender and age in social networks
The social network users study by Rapleaf
Online reputation company Rapleaf recently published a study on gender and age in social network users.
The study was made using the public available data gathered from the social web on hundreds of millions of people. Although no real statistical estimation of the validity of the study can be computed, […]
Django moving toward 1.0: tickets overview
As the Django web framework (see our previous study comparing 3 major web frameworks) is moving toward the 1.0 release (due in early september this year), one of the creators of Django, Adrian Holovaty, asked about the strength and weekness of Django replied:
I love the way URLconfs work — like a table of contents for […]
Firefox 3: an empirical performance study
In the vein of what has been done for openoffice, the imminent release of Firefox 3 gave us the idea to try to test the performance improvements in the version 3 compared to the various Firefox browser versions. Since it’s our preferred platform, all our tests were made on Linux (see platform for a precise […]
Digg taking over Slashdot … says AideRSS
Very much impressed by the recent article on 3d rails on when to publish a post to be noticed we decided to give the AideRSS api a try. This rather new service (the api) lets you dive into the huge amount of posts of any major feed available. They also provide a home made ranking […]
Web frameworks: a free software oriented study
The web2.0 era has put the web application frameworks at the center of the free software (aka FLOSS) community attention. Various opinions (1,2) and performance (1,2) comparisons have been published by free software enthusiasts trying to rank the quality and the potential of different web frameworks.
In this post we use standard data mining and statistical […]
Juice analytics study on the Colbert Bump
The folks at Juice analytics have put up a very interesting study of the Colbert Bump.
Gathering data from Amazon about 20 authors who appeared on the show, they saw an immediate increase in the sales of the books during the days after the author’s appearance on the show.
mininglabs launches !
We published the about page to describe what we intend to do here and what our inspiration are.
First studies will be coming soon …