A model for popularity dynamics to predict hot articles in discussion blog

  • Authors:
  • Su-Do Kim;SeonYeong Kim;Hwan-Gue Cho

  • Affiliations:
  • Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea;Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea;Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

It is interesting and informative to predict the set of articles that will be popular from the early observation stage. In this paper, we concentrate on the characteristics of hot articles and estimate the saturation point that is the earliest time the hits variation approaches zero. We have shown the statistical measures of our prediction method for popular articles, by observing the hit records from the birth time of the article. Our experiment showed that the more popular the subject article, the harder it is to identify such popular articles by observing only the early stage. The main contributions of this paper are as follows. We revealed the relationship between the amount of observation data and the predictability of popular articles. And We showed that there is a limit in predicting highly popular articles using partial knowledge. This implies the high popularity of online articles have common basic characteristics of a dynamic system that is hard to predict at the early stage.