Consistently Exceptional Photographers

10/19/2005 08:45:30 PM · #1

I found my statistically favorite photographers who have greater than or equal to 10 votes. I chose ten because it stood out easily in my list, others would probably want to choose a cutoff number appropriate to themselves and how the data in their stat-fave list was distributed.

Photographer-Score-Votes
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CalliopeKel-6.9167-12
mandyturner-6.6000-10
goodman-6.5000-10
roadrunner-6.2308-13
idnic-6.2000-15

These are my "Consistently Exceptional Photographers" from the challenges. Just something interesting I thought I'd share.

Also interesting is that they are all women.

I wonder if I'm too in touch with my feminine side. Anyone want to talk about sports?

=== Note:
Statistically favorite overall can be found in this thread

Edit to say yes, I graphed my data to find my cutoff. I need help.

Edit two - What I did:

I went to my statistically favorite photographers. I copy and pasted the data into excel. I made a bar graph of number of votes and score. Instead of computing correlation coefficients I visually inspected the graph to find a good cut-off point. In my case it was easy to see the people who had the most votes and to break the data into two groups: high scores with high number of votes, high scores with low number of votes. The list is the top five of the high score with high number of votes.

Way number two (which might be more meaningful):

Another way to do this would be to take the list, put it into excel, divide the number of votes by avg vote.

CEP = (votes/avg)

CEP calculated list becomes:

idnic 2.419354839
roadrunner 2.08640945
lnede 1.805972845
CalliopeKel 1.734931398
goodman 1.538461538
mandyturner 1.515151515

lnede comes into play doing it this way.

This is more fun than baseball stats

Message edited by author 2005-10-20 00:05:56.

ShutterPug

Canon EOS-6D

10/19/2005 08:54:34 PM · #2

uh-hum.....and where is my name on your list? :p

- Linda

10/19/2005 08:56:30 PM · #3

OMG I am so flattered!

How does one arrive at a statistically favorite photographer?

10/19/2005 08:58:06 PM · #4

Originally posted by ShutterPug:

uh-hum.....and where is my name on your list? :p

- Linda

Ummm...uuhhhh.... ummmm..... I must not have voted on ten of your photos yet. You know you're number one on my yooper list :)

gaurawa

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

10/19/2005 09:00:22 PM · #5

I always hope to make to any of these lists, but well as you can see.....

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

10/19/2005 09:01:13 PM · #6

Originally posted by CalliopeKel:

OMG I am so flattered!

How does one arrive at a statistically favorite photographer?

My Favorites (menu on top) -> Manage Your Favorites (Menu on left side) -> view your statistically favorite photographers (menu on left)

This is for my voting on challenges so whatever you're doing Kelly it connects well with polacks in Michigan :)

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

10/19/2005 09:02:40 PM · #7

lol Thanks "Fresco, but I'm consistently inconsistent, I just believe in flooding the market heheee

10/19/2005 09:02:53 PM · #8

Originally posted by gaurawa:

I always hope to make to any of these lists, but well as you can see.....

You're on my list, alas I have yet to vote on ten of your photos. Soon my friend, soon.

ShutterPug

Canon EOS-6D

10/19/2005 09:05:43 PM · #9

here are my top ten from what I have voted on:

jonasval
siggi
cajay
md8speed
C-Fox
arpita
Jeff O
heida
Koriyama
Makka

10/19/2005 09:06:30 PM · #10

Originally posted by idnic:

lol Thanks "Fresco, but I'm consistently inconsistent, I just believe in flooding the market heheee

Hmmm, you also have the honor of recieving most votes from me (15) so your market flooding strategy does work!

And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to make graphs like that - whew!

10/19/2005 09:08:08 PM · #11

Originally posted by ShutterPug:

here are my top ten from what I have voted on:

jonasval
siggi
cajay
md8speed
C-Fox
arpita
Jeff O
heida
Koriyama
Makka

And just where am I on that list?????? :p

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

10/19/2005 09:08:34 PM · #12

What strange methodology. So your voting my entries high before you know they are 'my' entries.

I didnt do so well in the 'celebration' challenge, I wonder how you marked me on that one.

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

10/19/2005 09:08:48 PM · #13

Originally posted by alfresco:

Originally posted by idnic:
lol Thanks "Fresco, but I'm consistently inconsistent, I just believe in flooding the market heheee

Hmmm, you also have the honor of recieving most votes from me (15) so your market flooding strategy does work!

And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to make graphs like that - whew!

OMG you're a geek too! *Points and laughs*

saintaugust

Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i

10/19/2005 09:09:04 PM · #14

ok... i'm tired.. how do you figure this out?

ShutterPug

Canon EOS-6D

10/19/2005 09:11:33 PM · #15

Originally posted by alfresco:

Originally posted by ShutterPug:
here are my top ten from what I have voted on:

jonasval
siggi
cajay
md8speed
C-Fox
arpita
Jeff O
heida
Koriyama
Makka

And just where am I on that list?????? :p

not far behind my friend - not far behind....

10/19/2005 09:13:52 PM · #16

I still dont understand how these names appear in your list. Are they the photographers that had entries that you scored the highest consecutively in challenges? Or photos added to their favorites lists?

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

10/19/2005 09:18:34 PM · #17

Originally posted by saintaugust:

ok... i'm tired.. how do you figure this out?

I went to my statistically favorite photographers. I copy and pasted the data into excel. I made a bar graph of number of votes and score. Instead of computing correlation coefficients I visually inspected the graph to find a good cut-off point. In my case it was easy to see the people who had the most votes and to break the data into two groups: high scores with high number of votes, high scores with low number of votes. The list is the top five of the high score with high number of votes.

Yes, I'm a geek. Thanks to idnic for bringing back those wonderful high school memories with the "point-n-laugh". Ahhhhhh, memories :)

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

10/19/2005 09:19:25 PM · #18

Interesting.... Here's my list with over 10 votes:

heida 7.82 11
librodo 7.8 20
EvilMonkey 7.2 15
Philos31 7.2 10
agwright 6.85 13
Jacko 6.83 12
mariomel 6.8 20
hopper 6.73 15
jonpink 6.73 15
aKiwi 6.69 13
elsapo 6.69 16
jmsetzler 6.67 12
muur88 6.64 14
mocabela 6.64 22
bruchen 6.64 11
debitipton 6.63 27
e301 6.61 18
gaurawa 6.6 20
Coley 6.59 22
ericlimon 6.58 12
grigrigirl 6.54 13
Zoomdak 6.5 30
rhipster 6.5 18
arngrimur 6.47 19
BobsterLobster 6.47 15
idnic 6.46 13
geewhy 6.46 13
Beagleboy 6.46 13
dsidwell 6.43 14

saintaugust

Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i

10/19/2005 09:20:15 PM · #19

i don't even know how to get to my statiscally fave photographers right now.. lol

Originally posted by alfresco:

Originally posted by saintaugust:
ok... i'm tired.. how do you figure this out?

I went to my statistically favorite photographers. I copy and pasted the data into excel. I made a bar graph of number of votes and score. Instead of computing correlation coefficients I visually inspected the graph to find a good cut-off point. In my case it was easy to see the people who had the most votes and to break the data into two groups: high scores with high number of votes, high scores with low number of votes. The list is the top five of the high score with high number of votes.

Yes, I'm a geek. Thanks to idnic for bringing back those wonderful high school memories with the "point-n-laugh". Ahhhhhh, memories :)

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM II

10/19/2005 09:22:57 PM · #20

Heres mine, but I dont even know half of these photographers..LOL

jonnie 8.6000 5
egillbjarki 8.3333 3
Jean 7.6667 6
Fetor 7.6500 20
blue_dragon 7.6000 5
leaf 7.5000 4
terje 7.4000 5
zitzu 7.3333 3
md8speed 7.3333 3
olimar 7.2000 5
heida

colyla

Canon EOS-50D

10/19/2005 09:23:58 PM · #21

Photographer AvgVote Votes

Chez--7.7500--4
Telehubbie--7.7143--7
magnus--7.6667-3
smellyfish1002--7.6667--3
casualguy--7.6000--5
scalvert--7.5556--9
librodo--7.5556--9
ursula--7.5000--6
crabappl3 7.5000 4
wilks 7.4000 5

These were just the top ten on my list.....I didn't sort to find the ones with 10 or more votes.

Message edited by author 2005-10-19 21:27:48.

10/19/2005 09:25:14 PM · #22

Originally posted by CalliopeKel:

What strange methodology. So your voting my entries high before you know they are 'my' entries.

I didnt do so well in the 'celebration' challenge, I wonder how you marked me on that one.

Yep, I'm voting high on your entries without knowing they're yours. I pm-ed you a semi-in-depth on the celebrations photo.

10/19/2005 09:29:34 PM · #23

Originally posted by colyla:

These were just the top ten on my list.....I didn't sort to find the ones with 10 or more votes.

I chose 10 because it made sense for the number of challenges I've voted in, your "significant number" may be higher or lower. If you really want to geek out you can graph your data and have a good ol' time :) Yes, I need help.

The top of my list has people with 3 or 4 votes, which is very good. But I thought it would be interesting to find those people who, time in and time out, I consistently gave a high score to.

mandyturner

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

10/19/2005 09:30:44 PM · #24

WOW thanks! But you are too kind...most of my entries are rushed and not thought out. I do better when I am not under the pressure of having an update button to push.

gaurawa

Canon EOS-5D Mark II