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Long tail

In statistics and business, a long tail of some distributions of numbers is the portion of the distribution having many occurrences far from the "head" or central part of the distribution. The distribution could involve popularities, random numbers of occurrences of events with various probabilities, etc. The term is often used loosely, with an imprecise…

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Chris Anderson and Clay Shirky

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Long tail

Nodes128
Edges127
Triples242
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015625
Components1

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Long tail

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related to Chris Anderson and Clay Shirky · 25
Long tail → Amazon, Anderson, Business, Chris Anderson, Clay Shirky, Erik Brynjolfsson, February, Future, Hu, Inequality, Internet, Jeffrey, Michael, More, October, Power Laws, Selling Less, Smith, The, The Long Tail
related to Marketing · 20
Long tail → AdECN, Among, As, Bing, Buzz, Demand-side, DSPs, Google, January, New, Pay, Publishers, Right Media, RSS, Similar, The, US, Viral, Yahoo, YouTube
has impact · 16
Long tail → At, Before, Blockbuster, But, For, In, LoveFilm, RSS, Similarly, The, These, This, Web, When, Where, Yahoo
related to Criticisms · 15
Long tail → Also, Anderson, Andrew Bud, Anita Elberse, Chris Anderson, Elberse, Harvard Business School, On, Serguei Netessine, Similar, Tan, Tom, UK, Web, Will Page
related to history · 15
Long tail → Amazon, Anderson, Apple, Benoît Mandelbrot, Business Is Selling Less, Chris Anderson, Frequency, Future, More, October, The, The Long Tail, Why, Wired, Yahoo
related to Internet companies · 15
Long tail → Amazon, Audible, Examples, Google, Internet, LoveFilm, Markets, Some, Store, Target, The, These, Walmart, With, Yahoo
related to Demand-side and supply-side drivers · 14
Long tail → Amazon, An MIT Sloan Management, Anatomy, Because, For, From Niches, It, Netflix, On, Review, Riches, The, Those, Where
related to "Goodbye Pareto Principle" · 13
Long tail → An, By, Duncan Simester, Erik Brynjolfsson, Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail, Hu, In, Internet, Jeffrey, The, They, Yu
related to The longer tail over time · 13
Long tail → Amazon's, Erik Brynjolfsson, Hu, In, Jeffrey, Michael, Online, Smith, The, Their, Wenjing Duan, Wenqi Zhou, Yu
related to General and cited references · 12
Long tail → Anderson, Business Is Selling Less, Chris, Fiona Maclachlan, Future, Hyperion, ISBN, More, New York, The Long Tail, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project, Why

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Long tailis aname for a long-known feature of some statistical distributions0.90text
Long tailis apotential market and0.90text
Long tailis acost of inventory storage and distribution0.90text
human height or IQ follow a normal distributioninstance ofChris Anderson argues that while quantities0.80text
in scale-free networks with preferential attachmentsinstance ofChris Anderson argues that while quantities0.80text
power law distributions are createdinstance ofChris Anderson argues that while quantities0.80text
i.e. because some nodes are more connected than othersinstance ofChris Anderson argues that while quantities0.80text
the Gutenberginstance ofthe long tails characterizing distributions0.80text
large earthquakesinstance ofcorrespond to large-intensity events0.80text
most popular wordsinstance ofcorrespond to large-intensity events0.80text
which dominate the distributionsinstance ofcorrespond to large-intensity events0.80text
search enginesinstance oftools0.80text

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