i would like a data feed of all the BBC Have Your Say responses which
have a) been most recommended and b) feature a large amount of capital
letters (eg BOYCOTT CHINA). That way, you could launch a very low
cost newspaper to rival the Daily Express/Mail without any real
journalism.
And thank-you newsbiscuit.com for "Pisswizard". Great name for a cat or a dog.
On 28/09/2007, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 28/09/2007, Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's possibly a bit of a sledgehammer / nut scenario for a poll like
> > "What should we call the Tikkabilla ("Play School" for you other
> > oldies...) hamster?".
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rich.
>
>
> You tell that to Socks and Cookie!
>
> I can't see how you can look for trends in the data and come up with a
> confidence level for a vote without all the data.
>
>
>
>
> > On 9/28/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Martin,
> > >
> > > On 26/09/2007, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > No I hadn't, thanks for pointing it out. I used to be Senior Producer
> on
> > > Online Voting at the BBC for a couple of years, and so I have some quite
> > > strong opinions about when it is right to run an online vote and when
> the
> > > correct reaction is "You did *what*?" - most of those views are probably
> > > more suited to the pub than this mailing list ;-)
> > >
> > > I guess one reason you might actually want to release a version of the
> > > original data is that it could be put out to external scrutiny, that is
> to
> > > say *our* scrutiny. Perhaps it might be possible to detect the problems
> > > with each poll and potentially correct for them. For example:
> > >
> > > - if the referring page is listed, any links from other sites to the
> vote
> > > could be detected;
> > > - some form of IP-address-to-region (with a confidence-level perhaps) to
> > > detect location problems;
> > > - matching against botnet lists;
> > > - hashed reference to the bbc.co.uk login name;
> > > - hashed version of the IP address;
> > > - date and time of the vote;
> > > - hashed version of the bbc.co.uk tracking cookie; and
> > > - the vote data
> > >
> > > What you could possibly get back is a confidence level (as a percentage)
> as
> > > to the reliablity of the result...
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