{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/liamlime\/","author_name":"LiamLime","cat":"LD #37","categories":["LD #37"],"comments":[],"epoch":1483473660,"event":"LD37","likes":26,"metadata":{"p_key":"85269","p_author":"LiamLime","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"296030","p_title":"How many people got ratings","p_cat":"LD #37","p_event":"LD37","p_time":"1483473660","p_likes":"26","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1481241600","event_key":"81","event_name":"Ludum Dare 37"},"source_url":"2017\/01\/03\/how-many-people-got-ratings-2\/","text":"<h1>Wait! Don\u2019t do your percentages yet!<\/h1>\n<p>Before you do percentages, you need to know how many people you were even competing with. Now it\u2019s easy to just think: Oh, well there were 1489 jam entries and 901 compo entries, so it should be easy, right?<\/p>\n<h2>No! Bad boy!<\/h2>\n<p>Not everyone competed on all ratings, and more importantly, not everyone got enough votes to get a rating everywhere. You can only compete against the entries with enough ratings. You simply cannot make the assumption that all the entries with insufficient ratings \u201cwere worse\u201d than the ones with.<strong>\u00a0Statistics simply don\u2019t work that way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s the short of it. This is how many entries got a rating in each of the categories. If you want to determine your position, use these numbers and not the global ones. Yes, your scores will be worse, but at least they will be accurate.<\/p>\n<h2>JAM ENTRIES<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Humor: 643<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme: 897<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun: 885<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio: 552<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mood: 826<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphics: 848\u00a0<\/strong>entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: 917<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Innovation: 848<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<h2>COMPO ENTRIES<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Humor: 424<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme: 624<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun: 621<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio: 446<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mood: 536<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphics: 598<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: 640<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Innovation: 596<\/strong>\u00a0entries received a score<\/p>\n<h2>How did I get these numbers?<\/h2>\n<p>By scraping the whole site. You can find a table with every single entry and data about it here:<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/liamlime.com\/experiments\/ldscrape\/out-ludum-dare-37.html\">Ludum Dare 37 Data (Big, big table)<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>If you would like to do analysis on this data, I also provide it in JSON form, available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/liamlime.com\/experiments\/ldscrape\/out-ludum-dare-37.json\">Ludum Dare 37 data (JSON)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data from previous jams is also available: <a href=\"http:\/\/liamlime.com\/experiments\/ldscrape\/out-ludum-dare-36.html\">LD36<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/liamlime.com\/experiments\/ldscrape\/out-ludum-dare-35.html\">LD35<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/liamlime.com\/experiments\/ldscrape\/out-ludum-dare-34.html\">LD34<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/liamlime.com\/experiments\/ldscrape\/out-ludum-dare-33.html\">LD33<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/liamlime.com\/experiments\/ldscrape\/out-ludum-dare-32.html\">LD32<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/liamlime.com\/experiments\/ldscrape\/out-ludum-dare-31.html\">LD31<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/liamlime.com\/experiments\/ldscrape\/out-ludum-dare-30.html\">LD30<\/a>, etc. Just edit the number in the URL for previous jams, or change it from .html to .json to get the json version.<\/p>\n<p>If you just so happen to run\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ldstats.info\/\">http:\/\/ldstats.info\/<\/a> you\u2019re welcome to use this data and make the site way, way more useful! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<h1>\ud83d\ude00 LOVE YOU! &lt;3<\/h1>\n<p>~Lime<\/p>","time":"January 3rd, 2017 8:01 pm","title":"How many people got ratings","title_was_empty":false}