MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Here are the viewing numbers for August. All data are taken from August 1st through August 31st except for the most recent videos: She’s a Woman is for the last three weeks, For What it’s Worth is for the last two weeks, and She Loves You is for the last week.
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simultaneous views:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: C = 4.84 (-1.01)
2) Drive My Car (2012): C = 3.03 (-2.06)
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: C = 2.95 (-0.34)
4) She’s a Woman: C = 2.35 (-0.90)
5) She Loves You: C = 2.32 (new)
6) Here Comes the Sun: C = 2.30 (-0.53)
7) You Can’t Do That: C = 1.82 (-0.45)
8) Paint it Black: C = 1.81 (-0.33)
9) Questionable: C = 1.80 (+1.16)
10) I Saw Her Standing There: C = 1.63 (-0.13)
11) Nowhere Man: C = 1.57 (+0.07)
12) If I Fell: C = 1.39 (-0.06)
13) When I’m Sixty-Four: C = 1.38 (-0.07)
14) Day Tripper: C = 1.34 (-0.16)
15) Wish You Were Here: C = 1.24 (-0.15)
16) Tell Me Why: C = 1.22 (-0.41)
17) San Francisco: C = 1.15 (-0.11)
18) This Boy: C = 1.04 (-0.13)
19) Hey Bulldog: C = 1.03 (-1.86)
20) Africa: C = 1.01 (-0.23)
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views per day:
1) Please Mr. Postman / Wipe Out: V = 1707 (-358)
2) Drive My Car (2012): V = 1568 (-1068)
3) She Loves You: V = 1131 (new)
4) Here Comes the Sun: V = 947 (-216)
5) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: V = 929 (-110)
6) She’s a Woman: V = 837 (-297)
7) You Can’t Do That: V = 835 (-208)
8) Paint it Black: V = 714 (-130)
9) Nowhere Man: V = 700 (+30)
10) I Saw Her Standing There: V = 695 (-54)
11) When I’m Sixty-Four: V = 683 (-34)
12) Tell Me Why: V = 676 (-229)
13) Questionable: V = 676 (+436)
14) If I Fell: V = 631 (-25)
15) Day Tripper: V = 587 (-67)
16) Till There Was You: V = 514 (-103)
17) San Francisco: V = 503 (-51)
18) Hey Bulldog: V = 444 (-806)
19) This Boy: V = 443 (-56)
20) In My Life: V = 431 (-18)
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Almost all the numbers are down, presumably because of the unpleasantness early in the month. A silver lining is that Questionable has rejoined the top tier after ranking 45th in views last month. And Please Mr. Postman has wrested bragging rights back from Drive My Car for the most viewed video. Get out the popcorn; this is gonna be good!
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Averaged over the past week, She Loves You is at V = 1088 and C = 2.23, and For What it’s Worth is at V = 332 and C = 0.87.
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Here’s a bonus week of data for She Loves You, so that we can examine how the recovery phase is going:
For August 10th, V = 980 and C = 2.01. For August 11th, V = 1826 and C = 3.74. For August 12th, V = 1598 and C = 3.27. For August 13th, V = 1186 and C = 2.43. For August 14th, V = 1125 and C = 2.30. For August 15th, V = 1340 and C = 2.75. And for August 16th, V = 1349 and C = 2.76.
It looks like we’ve reached a plateau (perhaps a steady long-term viewing rate), but it seems we got there sooner than we otherwise would have, given that there were over 22,000 views on the day right before the problems occurred. Still, over a thousand views a day would be a very impressive average if it holds.
Meanwhile, averaged over the past week, She’s a Woman is at V = 445 and C = 1.25, and For What it’s Worth is at V = 351 and C = 0.92. These numbers are pretty much in line with expectations based on the overall viewing trends.
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How did the hack and the channel loss affect the viewing numbers? Let’s take a look.
Recent data for She Loves You:
For August 5th (pre-hack), V = 22313 and C = 45.7. For August 6th (hack day), V = 5648 and C = 11.6. For August 7th and 8th averaged together (since the YouTube channel wasn’t there for part of each day), V = 809 and C = 1.66. And for August 9th (after restoration), V = 1077 and C = 2.21. Obviously there was a drastic drop due to the lack of access, but it looks like a slow recovery may have begun. Let’s hope it accelerates over the next few days!
Meanwhile, averaged over the past week, Paint it Black is at V = 745 and C = 1.89 (about where it would be expected to be at this point based on last week’s numbers), She’s a Woman is at V = 637 and C = 1.79 (a little lower than expected), and For What it’s Worth is at V = 468 and C = 1.22 (a little higher than expected). So the rest of the week pretty much took up the slack for the “dark” time for these videos.
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Apparently this thing has been around since the 60’s, but I had never heard of it before.
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Recent data for She Loves You:
For July 31st, V = 67403 and C = 138. For August 1st, V = 52393 and C = 107. For August 2nd, V = 22442 and C = 46.0. For August 3rd, V = 10857 and C = 22.2. And for August 4th, V = 15059 and C = 30.9. (Wow!)
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My understanding of the height change is that your spine becomes more curved as a result of supporting the weight of your head all day. Then it straightens out while you’re sleeping (presumably horizontally). The same effect explains why astronauts orbiting the Earth for a long time get a little taller.
You’d think Bobby would have realized that hanging from a bar wouldn’t make you any taller; it would only make your arms longer. However, that didn’t prevent me from trying it myself when I was a kid.
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I haven’t seen that movie, Jung, but you’re not the first person to suggest that I should!
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As a physics teacher myself I sympathize with you, Juergen. Here in the U.S. a two-semester introductory physics sequence in college typically devotes 12 or 13 weeks to electricity and magnetism, but only about a week to sound in general, with scarcely any mention of music at all.
I really believe we’d generate a lot more life-long physics fans if we concentrated more on the topics that capture people’s imagination. Obviously physics and engineering majors need to know more about certain things, but there’s already a separate version of the course for them that is more mathematically rigorous.
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Thanks for the video, Juergen! The golden ratio is really cool. Wikipedia has a good article on the various ways of defining it, and the many fields in which it can be applied.
I discovered the golden ratio by accident in college when I was working out a physics problem in which I had to take the reciprocal of 1.618. When I plugged that into the calculator, I noticed that the result was almost precisely 0.618. It turns out that’s another definition of the golden ratio: the number that is exactly one more than its own reciprocal.
I don’t really see a fundamental application of the golden ratio to music, though. I’m thinking of harmonies, and how they’re related to the frequency ratios of the notes. Pleasing harmonies have simple ratios: an octave is 2 to 1, a fifth is 3 to 2, a fourth is 4 to 3, etc. But the golden ratio is irrational, meaning it can’t be written as a ratio of two integers, and such an interval doesn’t sound particularly special. (The golden ratio is, however, pretty close to 1.625, or 13 to 8, which is a minor sixth.) I’ll need to research that more.
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I loved watching game shows when I was a kid, but this one is a little before my time. I can tell that the emcee is former Tonight Show host Steve Allen, and one of the panelists is prolific game show host Bill Cullen. Does anyone recognize any of the other panelists?
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Thank you, Tim! I guess I expected the human factors to be just a little bit of noise sprinkled on an otherwise clear signal, but obviously the signal-to-noise ratio isn’t that high.
That cartoon reference sounds vaguely familiar. Tom and Jerry, maybe?
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Thanks for the fine-toothed analysis, Tomás! That was a lot more hour-to-hour variation than I would have expected at this point; I wonder if that’s typical.
I’m pretty sure six days is the fastest any MLT video has reached 200K views in the two years that I’ve been keeping track. Ausgezeichnet!
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I just woke up and checked, and it’s passed 200K now. Since I went to bed last night it’s been averaging over 20 views per MINUTE!
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Thanks, Tomás. Yes, I imagine “the algorithm” plays a big part in determining the viewing trends, in all the ways you cited. I’ve been keeping track long enough now that I sometimes think I can predict how things are going to go, but I’m still wrong just as often as I’m right.
I had an idea about perhaps why Drive My Car has started getting more views recently than Please Mr. Postman. All the new videos have brought MLT to the attention of a lot of people who weren’t previously familiar with them. Many of those who decided to explore MLT further clicked on the “popular” button to sequence the videos in decreasing order of total number of views, watched the first one (Drive My Car), and then decided that was enough exploration for now. Again, just speculation.
