Penalization for small n problems: case study of Steam games
For many kinds of ranking websites, users are naturally going to be interested in the leaderboard or top list, the best of the best. This is the same thing for…
Steam game ratings don’t show recency effect
Due to a data error, some of these findings are not entirely true. See next post. Previously, I showed that IMDB movie ratings are inflated for recent movies. I speculated this…
What makes a good computer game? An analysis of Steam ratings
What makes a better computer game? While we can discuss game design (e.g. I studied skill vs. randomness before), we can also take an empirical approach. What we need is…