Pyevolve, 11 August.
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Abstract: Benford’s law is one of those very weird things that we can’t explain, and when we discovery more and more events which obeys the law, we became astonished. Two men (Simon Newcomb – 1881 and Frank Benford – 1938) noted the law in the same way, while flipping pages of a logarithmic table book; they noticed that the pages in the beginning of the book were dirtier than the pages at the end. Currently, there is no a priori criteria that says to us when a dataset will or will not obey the Benford’s Law. And it is because of this, that I’ve done an analysis on the Twitter Public Timeline.
Bibtex:
@misc{,
AUTHOR = {Perone, C. S.},
TITLE = {An analysis of Benford's Law applied to Twitter},
HOWPUBLISHED = {url{http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net/wordpress/?p=724}},
YEAR = {2009};
NOTE = {August 11, 2009},
}
Reference Type: Website
Subject Area(s): General Interest