What weird things do you notice about your catalog entries?

[Koopiskeva]

They all lead to sexins. O:

[Kai Stromler]

As a consequence of making way too many AMVs (importantly, most of them pretty average), I have my own statistically significant sample size to mess around with whenever something like this comes up. I took a snapshot of my current results, then re-sorted them against certain parameters to export and draw on the graphs that follow.




This just tracks hits by video over the SH catalog. This indicates that hits are not simply linear in time, otherwise the curve would be flat down. What this looks like is a recentist bias until the middle of 2004, after which hits go towards linear in time. This may be an effect of what I was working with; videos after the inflection point tend to get a lot more obscure in their sources, and the rate of release slows down significantly.




Just stars versus local downloads. As anticipated, stars track local downloads pretty closely and converge rapidly at lower volumes.




Average star score plotted against total opinions. The nearly flat curve through the approximate averages indicates that the number of opinions a video gets doesn't track with its quality. Note the same heavy-tail behavior seen in numbers of opinions as seen practically everywhere else that it can manifest.




Average star score plotted against total opinions, this time with more unnecessary lines. The low of each opinion-level block is pretty consistent, but the highs go up logarithmically.




The share to which I contribute to the problem. After some laborious math, I worked out that in the .org at large, 48.7% of videos have at least one source on the most-used anime list, and a nondisjunct 18.27% of videos use an artist on the most-used artists list. (These are estimations, the second assuming that each video includes a maximum of one artist on the list.) My comparable figures are 12.71% and 5.8% respectively. The downside of this is that I don't have a large enough sample space to accurately assess to what degree most-used is a contributing rather than just nondisjoint problem. How likely a video with an anime on the most-used list is to have music from a most-used artist, and vice versa, is a problem for another researcher.




I manually flagged each video as having music that was metal or not and underground or not. These are the splits for star rating. Behavior and averages are pretty uniform, but note that the highest highs are with underground material. The underground not-metal low is lower than in the corresponding non-underground split, but the underground metal low is higher than the corresponding point in the non-underground sample.

Yes, underground is arbitrary. For the purposes of this stat, it was decided by the question "Would the average person who both listens to this kind of music and watches AMVs be expected to be familiar with this band's music?". 'No' decisions went into underground, everything else went into the normal bucket.




A messy manual overlay of star score against local download volume with a fit line drawn on it. The weak upward slope is what would be expected if greater volume leads to regression to the mean in scoring. The relationship is pretty weak, though, which indicates that convergence to the mean emerges pretty quickly.




This breaks out number of downloads by genre. Some genres that don't have any representatives on local are not shown in the breakouts. What stands out here is 1) the significant demand for drama 2) the low demand for horror and experimental stuff, and 3) the consistency that the heavy-tailing behaves with across categories with a large enough sample space for it to be visible at all.


Requests for further splits, unless they sound especially interesting, will be met with "make your own 120 data points about it".

--K

[Kariudo]

that's some nice data you've got thar Kai

[NS]

I notice the sound.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Ooh, graphs... me next!


I've been charting my Downloads per month on local (with some DB help by doki) from 2004 (BLUE) and keeping track of the bandwidth in GB (RED).

The Yellow is a running total of the red over time

[EvaFan]

I've noticed that the vids with conceptual focus on drama/story/scene selection/intensity&power matching to a song don't do as well as the ones where the main focus was dance/style/action/fun/etc. From a realistic standpoint, I'm probably just not as good at making them even though they are my favorite kind of AMV. Another viewpoint though is that the latter is just easier to enjoy/create. Not really weird info but it is kind of a downer as an editor. Probably just grasping at straws with only using the star scale as reference anyway. I don't consider the hits or anything else of that nature worth considering and don't really see any discrepancies between the vids and their amount of downloads.

[hasteroth]

I was looking through my profile at my star ratings. Even if you claim to not edit for ratings, I'd bet you still notice them. While staring at those numbers, a thought pops into my mind...

Hmm, my highest rated video is the 5 minute video I slapped together in 2 hours.
Hmm...it looks like the longer I spend on making an amv, the lower a score it gets.

Now that trend doesn't apply to all my videos, but...

• highest rated: took 2 hours
• second highest: first amv. I spent maybe a week on it
• third highest: latest amv. Took around a year to complete but started on it and left it for ~7 months

So what weird things surround your videos?
Do you unknowingly release a video on the same day every year?
Do your titles have some strange pattern? (VNS videos don't count for this one)
Or...are your videos just normal and don't stand out in any way?

My star ratings have consistently gone up (for my solo videos) with each subsequent release.
I'm also noticing a common trend with AMV star-ratings in general. It seems that people usually just throw out a 3 star-rating.
Also my MEPs have a consistently higher rating than my solo AMVs, wondering if that's just a general trend.
Also the AMV that I spent the least amount of time on (Kenzi's Birthday Bash) and the AMV I spent the most time on (The Only One for Me) are the only ones that have been favourited by anybody.
And the number of hits for each video go down with each subsequent release. (Solo AMVs)
As well it seems that my best (based on my personal opinion) AMVs were made for Kenzichu, go figure.
And arguably my best AMV, was my first AMV.

[Kaream]

I wonder who care's about all of this stuff.

[Kariudo]

I wonder who care's about all of this stuff.

perhaps people who know how to use apostrophes BA-ZING

That aside, seeing as I started the thread in the first place...I suppose I care about it.
Feel free to not post if you don't have anything to add to the conversation.

[Nya-chan Production]

And the number of hits for each video go down with each subsequent release. (Solo AMVs)

Unless a vid is super famous, it is usually like that - the older vids have been out longer, so more people visited and downloaded them.