[mythtv-users] commercial flagging idea - commercial"fingerprinting"

Risto Treksler risto at elkhornbanff.ca
Wed Apr 13 22:40:04 UTC 2005



Mike Benoit <ipso at snappymail.ca> said:
> I'm the author of MythRecommend
> (http://ipso.snappymail.ca:8080/mythrecommend/) which has been around
> for a fair amount of time now, and out of the 120 unique people who use
> it, they record 2275 unique programs in total. The top 345 shows are
> watched by over half of the people.

--PART I--

i found the article that explains why it is crucial 
to have something like mythrecommend built right in

I know it's long, but honestly it's a good read.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html
http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/images.html?issue=12.10&topic=tail&img=2

for myth, in the above graph,
x axis would be shows ranked by popularity
y-axis would be the percentage of people who watch

sub in 345 for 39,000, (at this point, y=50)
the argument is that the area under the curve to the right of the line
is actually greater than the area under the curve to the left of the line

in your case there were 1930 shows in the long tail
i am willing to bet that:

if more people used your script,
then the "long tail" would get longer,
but there wouldn't be many more than 345 shows 
that more than half the people watch

this is good news and bad news for any "commercial fingerprinting" scheme
- good - we know which shows to fingerprint (if it can be done ;)
         the 345 hit shows that lie to the left
- bad  - even though more than half of the people watch these shows,
         they might only make up 10% of television viewing











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