Tag: Zipf’s law
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Mathematically modelling the Labour leadership nomination race
No politics here – just some maths. But if we use a Zipf distribution (see here for more about that) we get a pretty good fit for the three front runners – Keir Starmer, who currently has 43 nominations from constituency labour parties, Rebecca Long-Bailey who has 17 and Lisa Nandy who has 10 –…
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Zipf and SPOTY reprise
After a bit of fiddling the best (by eye) match I could find was: Which gives this:
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BBC Sports Personality of the Year votes modelled as a Zipf distribution
One of the biggest annual sporting occasions in the UK is the award, in December, of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year, and last nights award, after the Olympics and much else, was, in a real sense, a national event, with chit-chat in the workplace for many weeks previously focusing on who might win,…
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The long tail of a Zipf distribution
Back in the days of the first dot.com bubble the talk was of the “long tail” – how web retailers could make a lot of money by selling small amounts of a large number of different things. True enough, one of the great survivors of those days – Amazon – does make money from the…
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