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Is there good sites that provide ranking of computer processors performance?

idyllhands — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:35:47 -0800

Is there good sites that provide ranking of computer processors performance? I am looking to buy a new PC, but am being patient for the right deal to come along. It would be nice to have a trustworthy source of which processors are "better." Any links to PC and/or laptop rankings is appreciated.

Looking for a simple rating/ranking web app

lord_yo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:20:57 -0800

Help me find a simple web app: Users are able to enter items, other users are able to rate those items, and the aggregated rating score is used to display the items as a ranked list. Like digg/pligg, but without the bells and whistles. The app should be open source and installable on any major server.

How can I more easily create a ranked list?

soonertbone — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:33:58 -0800

Is there a simple program that will help a person rank their preferences of a list of items by presenting them with a series of A vs. B matchups? Suppose I have a list of items and I want to rank them according to personal preference. I'm looking for a program that would ask me "Which do you prefer: thing X or thing Q?" Then, after asking a series of those questions, would give me a list of things ranked from 1 to 100 (or whatever the number is.)

It would have to have some ability, I imagine, to resolve inconsistencies, in case the person answering the questions ranks A above B, B above C, and C above A.

Does this make sense to everybody? Anybody know of a program that would do this? (Mac preferred, but PC is fine.)

Puzzles Weren't My Major: How Do I Re-Order An Mixed Up List?

mhh5 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:54:35 -0800

Help me sort out this problem of ranking bracket winners... Thx in advance, hivemind. I have a bunch of data that needs to be ranked in the form of "A won over B", "C won over F", "A won over F", "B won over D"... etc, etc.

How do I get all of this scattered info into a ranked list of "A>B>C>D>E>F, etc"..?

I also have a sneaky suspicion that some of these tidbits of info might be contradictory (or circular)... eg. "A>C", "C>B", "B>A"...

Any help? Thanks!

Where are the pages of statistics for smartletes?

eisenkr — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:09:15 -0800

There are lots of pages that display portraits of professional and amateur athletes next to their statistics. Where can I find portraits and statistics/rankings of the people who compete in more intellectual/less physical competitions? I'd love to see what the best (and not so great) chess, scrabble, and crosswords players look like.

What are external links, and what value do they provide to my site ranking?

Nixie Pixel — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:07:40 -0800

What are external links, and what value do they provide to my site ranking? Are they important? What are external links, and what value do they provide to my site ranking? Are they important? I understand the basics of external linking, but I'd like to know a more in depth explanation. Thanks a lot in advance! =)

How to see all top ranked movies on IMDb?

wastelands — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:23:40 -0800

How can I see the top-ranked IMDb movies beyond the top 250? I'd like to see movies ranked in order beyond the top 250 here:

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

In other words, how do I see the continuation of this list, i.e. #251 and lower?

How do they rank how popular a website is?

shshao — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:00:09 -0800

How do they rank how popular a website is? Which one of the services is the most accurate between Alexa, Quantcast, Hitwise, Compete, Google, etc...?

OMG I am gonna fail... except, oh hai, I am actually the valedictorian.

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:59:13 -0800

Why does the person who sobs and complains loudly about how they think they "failed" every test and that they are doing/did "horribly" in school (but ends up being #1) bother me so? So there's this person in my classes who literally cries in front of people while we are waiting to take an exam.... walks out of exams loudly complaining that they (keeping it gender anonymous) failed.... continually attests that they struggle so much with the material.... yet gleefully ends up being ranked #1 in our class.... WHY does this bother me so?

This person was a friend, now more an acquaintance, and we used to study together for our exams and coursework. I admittedly struggled with the nature of the work, and it was challenging... I did average. When I was friends with this person, I would confide in them how I felt like I was drowning and I didn't know how to properly get a handle on the material. They would then proceed to discuss that they were doing so "bad" in school and they weren't happy with their performance either, and that they "understood" what I was going through.

But yet, this person is valedictorian--in lieu of the behavior of crying before exams because they were "going to fail it no doubt about it" and telling me that they weren't doing well.

I don't know why but I feel annoyed/jealous/stupid. Were they genuinely not sure of their talent? Did they lie? Drama queen ? Setting low expectations secretly so when they rocked out by getting valedictorian we'd be all amazed? Why would you act like you were getting bad grades ? I mean, you don't need to go on and on about getting good grades, but if one is doing well there's a way you can handle yourself appropriately.

Grrr... I know this is dumb, and I should get over it, but I feel really irked inside. Maybe because I was caught by surprise and didn't expect them to be valedictorian--maybe it felt good to think that someone else was struggling with the material like me, when all along they were kicking its ass and taking names.

What is this person's psyche for acting this way?

P.S. This wasn't a case of we didn't get any of our grades until the end of the year/semester; we would get grades/feedback continually.

How could you rank the validity of a celebrity encounter

bjork24 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:18:31 -0800

I once read a book about a couple of autograph hounds who ranked celebrities by their willingness to meet with fans and sign autographs. If this system were ported to the web and opened to the public, allowing anyone who's had contact with a celebrity to rank their experience, how could you validate that the encounter actually happened? It's impossible to know whether a person is lying or not, but could you create a system that lends credibility to users with more celebrity encounters? Why would more encounters equate to more credibility? It's an endless stream of questions!

FOCUS: If a site were based on ranking celebrity encounters, how could you validate the truthfulness of the experience?

Tracking a URL's ranking for specific keywords?

aebaxter — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:20:22 -0800

I need a piece of software or a web application that will help me track a URL's performance relative to specific keywords over time. Searching through previous questions tagged with SEO, I have already found several applications (googlerankings.com and Keyword Tracker, specifically) that do exactly what I'm after, except for only one site, i.e. you need a Google API key.

I need something that will let me put in the URL of any site (not just my own) and a keyword (or several), and it will give me the ranking of that URL for that specific keyword. Ideally the application would track changes in the rankings for the keyword(s) over time. Does this functionality exist?

Paid services are fine.

General surgery residency ranking

banderivec — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:48:02 -0800

Looking for an advice on ranking general surgery residencies, specifically University of Pittsburgh vs University of Michigan vs Yale; and UMDNJ New Brunswick vs University of Connecticut vs Brown. Can you suggest any pros or cons to help me rank them? I am aware of FREIDA, USNews hospital rankings, NIH funding data, and pass rates... any other information that I may consider or any inside information/ personal experience on these programs? Thank you.

Search Engine Ranking

Gankmore — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:33:01 -0800

How does a website get to be ranked on the first page for searching on google, yahoo, etc? What is organic searching based on? How can one manipulate their website to rank higher on search engines? Is it about traffic? Or links? What exactly is it?

I don't understand why some websites are on the first page and others you can't ever find.

Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

How can I make rankings closer reflect votes?

bjork24 — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:59:16 -0800

In a ranking system, when you have multiple items with similar rankings, how can you give more weight to those with the most votes? For instance, one item has a 90% rating with only 2 votes, and another has an 89% with 100 votes. Is there a formula that would give more weight, or precedence, to the one with more votes?

FWIW, I'm using the formula in a PHP script.

Top Podcast Download Numbers?

davebug — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:00:53 -0800

Where can I find numbers of downloads for, say, the top 100 most downloaded podcasts?

Analyzing ranking data

GuyZero — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:26:10 -0800

StatsFilter: How to analyze a set of ranking data? I ran a survey. I have a set of rankings: 10 items where each respondent uniquely ranked each item 1-10. But... I don't really know what to do with it. How do I generate a group ranking based on the individual rankings? Total the ranking vales for each item? Average them? Also, any references to a text that describes how to analyze this kind of data are welcome.

How to rank a Top100 fairly

meech — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:24:12 -0800

How do I create an accurate and fair Top 100 list from people voting? A panel of 12 people is trying to rank the top 100 sportspeople. The scoring system means that if a panelist puts someone at number one on their list that sportsperson gets 100 points, if the sportsperson is ranked 2nd they get 99 etc. Each sportsperson will get a total score by adding up all of their points from each of the 12 panelists. These are then placed in order from highest score to lowest - creating a Top 100.

My worry is that if one panelist puts someone at 50 [49 points] then that sportsperson is higher than someone that 4 panelists put at 90 [4 x 9 = 36] and might be considered over-weighting that one persons point of view.

Should I be worried? Is there a fairer way to do it? And, please, if possible no answers that looks like calculus.

Google dropped this site

wsg — Fri, 06 May 2005 11:32:46 -0800

A friend of mine has a little page where he sells books and stuff. He says it used to come up in Google, but no more. Yahoo finds it. It's a free site that came with his internet account, I think. Why did Google lose it? Is it just that Google is blocking these personal sites from this provider, cox.net?

Search Engine Optimization

dg — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 20:20:56 -0800

Yahoo! Japan search rankings - can you pay to improve your ranking? At work, we have been asked by one of our representative offices in Japan to pay AUD1,126.00 to boost our search rankings, but I am very skeptical of the truth in this. I have spoken to a couple of Japanese people (including one of our staff members) who use Yahoo! Japan's search engine a lot and they confirm that it is possible to pay a fee to improve rankings of a site. Can anyone definitely confirm or deny this? If it does improve our ranking, it would be worth paying, but I can't help feeling it is a scam.