<Text-field style="Heading 1" layout="Heading 1">Introduction</Text-field>

<Text-field style="Heading 1" layout="Heading 1">Inside the Ranking Methodology</Text-field>

We wish to rank documents based on the following parameters:

v - Number of views

d - Number of file downloads

a - Average ranking

nr - Number of rankings

days - Number of days the document has been published

We also know the following constant:

m - Maximum ranking

The number of views should be less signifigant than the number of downloads since the action of a user downloading the file indicates the user is interested in the file. Viewing the document only means the document appeared highly in search results.

We will divide both the number of views and the number of downloads of the document to determine the number of downloads/views per day. Also divide views by 2 to reduce it's effect on the ranking.

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We also want the ranking of the document to signfigantly affect the score for the document. However, we also want the number of times the document was rated to increase the amount that the rating affects the score.

Most documents are rated about 5 times, most are rated less than 10 times. Let's create a function that gives a y value of 0..1 with an asymptote at 1 when x = 10

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print(); # input placeholder

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print(); # input placeholder

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Have the value of the ranking be more effective when the number of rankings reaches 10 using our function:

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print(); # input placeholder

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Let's put it all together

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print(); # input placeholder

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Set the max ranking to be 5

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print(); # input placeholder

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print(); # input placeholder

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