Date:         Sat, 19 May 2012 06:54:33 -0700
Reply-To:     David Marso <david.marso@gmail.com>
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From:         David Marso <david.marso@gmail.com>
Subject:      Re: Categorizing a power law distribution of user participation
              in an online community (non spss question)
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First thing I would do I create a histogram and see if there are obvious
clumps.


whatsinaname wrote
>
> I have data on participation in a large scale online community.
> Participation follows a power law distribution. This means that a fraction
> of the users are responsible for the majority of posts, i.e. a few people
> post a LOT while a lot of people don’t post much at all.
>
> My question is how to segment this population to tease apart differences
> between high, low, and 'in between' usage?  Splitting users into groups at
> equal percentiles does not seem appropriate.  I have not come across an
> established method for this kind of segmentation.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>


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