Rank Your Music

Interactive resorting of Rate Your Music ratings with a Bradley-Terry model

User-created datasets using ordinal scales (such as media ratings) have tendencies to drift or 'clump' towards the extremes and fail to be informative as possible, falling prey to ceiling effects and making it difficult to distinguish between the mediocre and truly excellent.

This can be counteracted by rerating the dataset to create a uniform (and hence, informative) distribution of ratings, but such manual rerating is difficult.

This app owe's itself to Gwern's resorter, which keeps track of comparisons, infers underlying ratings assuming that they are noisy in the ELO-like Bradley-Terry model, and interactively & intelligently queries the user with comparisons of the media with the most uncertain current ratings, and outputting a fully rescaled set of ratings when the user ends the session. Gwern has also done a huge amount of work compiling noisy-sorting literature, to which I sincerely extend my thanks.

Usage

Enter your Rate Your Music username

Go to your profile

and click Export your data. Save it somewhere to be uploaded.

Upload your data


or

We'll show a slice of this data after you've loaded it as a sanity check.

Answer some questions

After you've loaded the data, we'll do pairwise comparisons of albums.