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Why we model comment counts

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Last week, I wrote a very technical post on how I model the distribution of comment counts for an RSS feed in FeedHub.  I originally drafted the post to document its derivation.  It was non-trivial enough that I feel that there is some merit in sharing this information with others, but it started with the [...]

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Modeling blog post comment counts

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

As part of my work for FeedHub, I found the need to model the distribution of comment counts for blog posts in RSS feeds.  In particular, I want to normalize the number of comments an item receives to a score ranging from 0 to 1.  It turns out that the  negative binomial distribution is a [...]

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