Livejournal interests suggestion meme!

[ixwin]

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. writing score: 36
2. books score: 31
3. music score: 27
4. harry potter score: 24
5. anime score: 20
6. poetry score: 20
7. cats score: 19
8. monty python score: 18
9. movies score: 17
10. chocolate score: 17
11. terry

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[erming]

It is good thanks, but it would be nicer if you had links to each of the interests, rather than just a list.

Ian

[ixwin]

Good idea - done!

[erming]

Thanks

[yvesilena]

Ha HA! This is fantastic! Well done!

[robert_jones]

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. music score: 20
2. writing score: 16
3. jesus score: 13
4. photography score: 11
5. ecumenism score: 11
6. singing score: 11
7. science fiction score: 10
8. harry potter score: 10
9. monasticism score: 9
10. mysticism score: 9
11. sleeping score: 9
12. movies score: 8
13. epistemology score: 8
14. choral music score: 8
15. hiking score: 7
16. drawing score: 7
17. rain score: 7
18. the bible score: 7
19. cats score: 7
20. spirituality score: 7

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I'm not remotely interested in photography or cats, but otherwise it seems pretty accurate.

[restlesseyes]

i too got cats and photography

[neonrose5]

I think almost every gets photography & cats.

My interests

[roxy641]

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. radiohead score: 6
2. muse score: 4
3. pixies score: 4
4. idlewild score: 4
5. feeder score: 4
6. weezer score: 4
7. pj harvey score: 4
8. the strokes score: 4
9. massive attack score: 4
10. queen score: 3
11. keane score: 3
12. alanis morissette score: 3
13. jeff buckley score: 3
14. badly drawn boy score: 3
15. primal scream score: 3
16. starsailor score: 3
17. u2 score: 3
18. the verve score: 3
19. snow patrol score: 3
20. the white stripes score: 3

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Thanks for that :-)

Roxy641

[i_am_famous]

Nearly everything you SHOULD be interested in I AM interested in.

Crazy.

[calieber]

Of course, I'm interested in things I don't list (mostly bands that are going to be common). It just occurred to me that this throws off the results in two ways: not only is, say, celibacy (which fascinates me intellectually but isn't something I'd likely want to do on purpose) eligible to be listed in the results, but if it were rare, people who list it would contribute to interests' scores less than they otherwise would -- possibly even to the extent of altering the composition of the top 20.

Also, some of the things I list are shorthand for "being the kind of person who would list X." I think "competititve sausage racing" falls in that category.

Hm. I may have to join blog_sociology just to promote and discuss this (with your permission, of course

[livredor]

Ooh, Jewish geography! Good thought, I'm definitely interested in that, I can't think why I never listed it before!

[ixwin]

Feel free to promote/discuss this wherever you like. For me half (actually probably more like 90%) of the fun of doing something like this is seeing it spread and watching people's reactions and responses. It's only sitting on a small server in a friend's garage, though, so I hope people will be forgiving if it's not superfast or always up.

As to the weighting, you're probably right. I just went for the simplest option, and as it seemed to give sufficiently varied and interesting answers, left it at that. If there's sufficient interest, I suppose I could produce an "experimenter's version" which allowed the user to enter a weighting factor as you describe, and also to specify the number of users who could list an interest before it stopped counting as 'unusual' and then they could investigate what impact those things had on the results.

[bridgetester]

Hmmm... I definitely second the weighting for users that have common interests, as some of those things are only moderately interesting.

cooking, writing, camping, harry potter, photography, friends, coffee, sewing, radiohead, travel, rain, sushi, swimming, jazz, theatre, dreams, monty python, hiking, dancing, french

What about a script that goes through and pulls out the interests that only one (or a few) person lists, or the interests that the most people list? *curious*