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Album Ratings 142
Objectivity 62%
Last Active 09-25-20 9:08 pm
Joined 11-12-11
Review Comments 2,122
| Quantitative History of your Favorite Albums
I haven’t been active in a while, but I still lurk the site for reviews and music news. I’ve been learning to code in R, and so I thought as a learning exercise I would analyze the rating data of some of the top rated albums on Sputnik. Specifically, I counted the amount of ratings in a 60 day period starting from the ratings that have date stamps on them and found when the album had the most ratings. I, also, calculated the total averaged after each rating, running average (51 rating/point) smoothed it to reduce the variability of the first few averages in that set, and calculated the peak rating of the albums, and when they were at their peak (tldr; I found the albums highest rating and when). I also fit some polynomial models (picked the best one based on Bayes Information Criterion) to the time series of each individual rating to find what direction the ratings of the albums have trended towards in their entirety. All data is as of when I scraped the data (2/25/2016). | | 1 |  | Bjork
Homogenic
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2015-01-24
65 Ratings
Highest Rating:
2015-10-17
4.380
Trend:
Upward (slope = 7.9e-05) | | 2 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2012-10-07
100 Ratings
Highest Rating:
2016-01-23
4.502
Trend:
Upward (slope = 7.59e-05) | | 3 |  | Brand New
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2009-09-06
168 Ratings
Highest Rating:
2013-11-10
4.477
Trend:
Upward (3rd order polynomial (coefficients = 1st,2nd,3rd) = 3.5e-04, -1.3e-07, 1.35e-11) | | 4 |  | Megadeth
Rust in Peace
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2010-06-29
124 Ratings
Highest Rating:
Sometime in prerecorded history (the 87th rating)
4.598
Trend:
Downward (2nd order (coefficients = 1st,2nd) = 1.03e-04,-2.1e-08) | | 5 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2011-08-25
142 Ratings
Highest Rating:
Sometime in prerecorded history (the 356th rating)
4.580
Trend:
Staying the same (slope = 2.2e-06, model is not significant) | | 6 |  | Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2012-12-03
132 Ratings
Highest Rating:
2016-02-05
4.640
Trend:
Upward (slope = 2.8e-05) | | 7 |  | Radiohead
OK Computer
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2011-01-01
178 Ratings
Highest Rating:
Sometime in prerecorded history (the 368th rating)
4.590
Trend:
Upward (slope = 8.6e-06) | | 8 |  | Tool
Lateralus
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2010-08-16
140 Ratings
Highest Rating:
Sometime in prerecorded history (the 72nd rating)
4.474
Trend:
Upward (slope = 2.4e-05) | | 9 |  | Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2012-11-03
75 Ratings
Highest Rating:
2013-12-04
4.616
Trend:
Downward (2nd order (coefficients = 1st,2nd) = 2.5e-04, -8.6e-08) | | 10 |  | Agalloch
Ashes Against the Grain
Best 60 day period in terms of counts of ratings:
2010-03-09
74 Ratings
Highest Rating:
2007-08-14
4.371
Trend:
Upward (slope = 5.8e-05) | |
macman76
02.26.16 | Sup again. Interpret away. | Flugmorph
02.26.16 | so
interesting | Spacesh1p
02.26.16 | Cool list dude, enjoyed perusing it. | macman76
02.26.16 | Note to anyone who cares, the R^2 on all of the models was less than .014. | StallionMang
02.26.16 | woo | Spacesh1p
02.26.16 | From the little bit that I know about stats, the R^2 is unsurprising? | macman76
02.26.16 | Yes, Spacesh1p. The slope is so small and standard error so big for these models, that it would take the 1000 + ratings to get them to be significant. | ScuroFantasma
02.27.16 | Interesting [2] | Feather
03.10.16 | what is your course of study/job. | zakalwe
03.10.16 | You must make women quiver. | SCREAM!
03.10.16 | eh fuck the haters do Ashes Against the Grain m/ | macman76
03.11.16 | by request, agalloch added | SCREAM!
03.11.16 | Cool, thanks! |
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