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Re: DTF.org The Astonishing Survey (aka Rate the Album)
« Reply #35 on: January 28, 2016, 02:59:52 PM »
Just finished the 1st disc and to be fair, it's ok .. No more... Will take a few more hearing i guess
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« Reply #36 on: January 28, 2016, 03:01:58 PM »
Cool idea. I'm in!
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« Reply #37 on: January 28, 2016, 03:23:32 PM »
Just finished the 1st disc and to be fair, it's ok .. No more... Will take a few more hearing i guess
But please tell me you didn't fill out a survey about the album after one listen of half of it?

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« Reply #38 on: January 28, 2016, 03:32:42 PM »
Definitely a nice idea. Gonna get right on it.  :tup

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Re: DTF.org The Astonishing Survey (aka Rate the Album)
« Reply #39 on: January 28, 2016, 03:59:12 PM »
Three Days the albums most "metal" song (my opinion) seems to be the favorite right now. Which is odd because in the "elements of DT" question metal only got 4 votes.

Not trying to be snarky or anything just thought it was an interesting tidbit.

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« Reply #40 on: January 28, 2016, 04:19:40 PM »
Current results are fairly interesting in and of themselves, but what I'm most interested in, Implode, is whether you'll be able to do any cool analytics once you've got a bigger data set. So, say, people who loved these previous albums were x% more likely to love The Astonishing, or whatever.

And yeah, the love for Three Days is marvellous.

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« Reply #41 on: January 28, 2016, 04:23:24 PM »
Why did so many people become fans in 2003? 

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« Reply #42 on: January 28, 2016, 04:24:28 PM »
Yes, I definitely plan on doing things like that! There's so many combinations of variables, it'd take forever to test all the correlations. So feel free to make suggestions for things you want tested!

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« Reply #43 on: January 28, 2016, 04:33:45 PM »
Yes, I definitely plan on doing things like that! There's so many combinations of variables, it'd take forever to test all the correlations. So feel free to make suggestions for things you want tested!
Anything that stands out really. It's a good dataset that you're collecting, but not so vast that it would take too long to test lots of different things out.

I'm totally a data analysis geek so let me know if you want me to help out. :D

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« Reply #44 on: January 28, 2016, 04:46:04 PM »
Why did so many people become fans in 2003?

Train of Though is a great album so...

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« Reply #45 on: January 29, 2016, 06:18:53 AM »
huh... someone has posted as me there... and it's not me.

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Re: DTF.org The Astonishing Survey (aka Rate the Album)
« Reply #46 on: January 29, 2016, 06:42:40 AM »
Though I should say, when people view the responses, they can see all the names entered. They can't see which other responses correspond to those names, but everyone can see that robwebster has either come back simply to chime in or someone is having a bit of fun with identity theft. :lol
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« Reply #47 on: January 29, 2016, 07:11:58 AM »
I have heard the album 3x

Composing a concept album is hard... this is a spectacular failure!

I must edit my first rating... from 4/10 to 2/10. It's the worst DT album in their catalog.

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« Reply #48 on: January 29, 2016, 07:33:01 AM »
huh... someone has posted as me there... and it's not me.

Welp. The name is kind of meaningless, so I'll keep the response there but change the name if you'd like.

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« Reply #49 on: January 29, 2016, 07:56:23 AM »
Doesnt matter if the entry isnt like an obvious troll

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« Reply #50 on: January 29, 2016, 08:57:52 AM »
I voted now just after finishing my first listen - I wouldn't normally rate things straight away but I can update later after more listens.

I see my pick for favourite track was the most popular one among other too though.

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« Reply #51 on: January 29, 2016, 02:23:25 PM »
Haven't done any in depth analyses yet, still waiting for more responses. I know you guys are out there!

But it the mean time, here's a little bit about the average rating of all the albums. So on the first day, this is where The Astonishing stacks up according to DTF.


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« Reply #52 on: January 29, 2016, 02:24:26 PM »
2/10. It's the worst DT album in their catalog.

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« Reply #53 on: January 29, 2016, 02:31:39 PM »
I favorite part is that implies there are worse, non-DT albums in their catalog. I want to know what those are!

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« Reply #54 on: January 29, 2016, 02:53:30 PM »
Dream Theatre - When Clouds and Chaos Unite

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« Reply #55 on: January 29, 2016, 03:06:11 PM »
Man, just seeing that little tidbit from Implode makes me very excited about this thread.

I'm such a nerd. :lol

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« Reply #56 on: January 29, 2016, 03:29:58 PM »
Man, looking at the results makes me happy because of the age group chart. I remember begging my Mom to drive me to the record store for the new release "Permanent Waves" by Rush...LOL!! Looking at all of the younger fans into DT is AWESOME!!!

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« Reply #57 on: January 29, 2016, 03:32:03 PM »
I favorite part is that implies there are worse, non-DT albums in their catalog. I want to know what those are!
I guess he's not a fan of the True Symphonic Rockestra

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« Reply #58 on: January 29, 2016, 03:37:10 PM »
I favorite part is that implies there are worse, non-DT albums in their catalog. I want to know what those are!
I guess he's not a fan of the True Symphonic Rockestra

but that's impossible

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« Reply #59 on: January 29, 2016, 09:32:28 PM »
Can't argue with the top 3 or the bottom 1. :tup All hail the new holy trinity!

And a lot of people gave Awake a lower rating than I did, so don't blame me! :lol
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« Reply #60 on: January 31, 2016, 11:02:53 AM »
It was very hard to pick my favorite song. There are so many good ones. Went for Three Days, but it could be TGOM, A Life Left Behind, MOB, Brother, Can You Hear Me?...

I rated TA as 9/10. The question is whether TA will resist the test of time. It can grow to be my personal best, but also get old and be the second worst (after WDADU).

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« Reply #61 on: January 31, 2016, 11:12:19 AM »
Can't argue with the top 3 or the bottom 1. :tup All hail the new holy trinity!

It's actually a big four, silly  :-*
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« Reply #62 on: January 31, 2016, 11:12:26 AM »
I enjoyed taking this survey and reading the overall results, thanks for making this.
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« Reply #63 on: January 31, 2016, 01:50:37 PM »
Looking at the results I am pleased to see we all love Three Days.
Same! Three Days was the track that immediatly stood out on my first listen, I love it. Nice to see so many people agree :)
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« Reply #64 on: January 31, 2016, 08:38:54 PM »
Can't argue with the top 3 or the bottom 1. :tup All hail the new holy trinity!

It's actually a big four, silly  :-*

I'll stick with the three correct ones, thanks. :biggrin:
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« Reply #65 on: January 31, 2016, 09:36:53 PM »
Voted/commented/etc. However, I didn't pick a favorite song, because I simply can't yet. There's WAY too many songs to easily say *this* one is the best. Upon first listen it was Three Days without a shadow of doubt, but now I don't know. There's at least 13-15 songs that I consider top tier, but it's going to take a while for me to pick a discernible favorite.

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« Reply #66 on: February 01, 2016, 10:25:38 AM »
I'm starting some of the fun analysis now. I'll just say right now, that obviously this is a very small sample size when compared to the population of DT fans, so take all of these conclusions with a grain of salt. Also, the results I'm going to highlight are all significant using a=.05. In the end, I'll probably post a link to all the stats data for fun, but for now I'll point out the highlights.

First I've done a comparison of album rating and preferred aspect of DT, which I thought would be a good way to make sure my math is checking out since some of the conclusions shouldn't be surprising. The significant results are as follows:

- People who prefer Prog are more likely to rate TOT higher. (Wasn't expecting that.) (has since become insignificant with more responses)
- People who prefer Metal are more likely to rate I&W lower.
- People who prefer Metal are more likely to rate 8VM higher.
- People who prefer Metal are more likely to rate DT12 lower.
- People who prefer Pop/Melodic are more likely to rate 8VM lower.

Some of these seem strange, but keep in mind the sample size with these responses in particular are very small. I think other comparisons will hold more weight.


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« Reply #67 on: February 01, 2016, 10:35:42 AM »
- People who prefer Prog are more likely to rate TOT higher. (Wasn't expecting that.)
- People who prefer Metal are more likely to rate I&W lower.
- People who prefer Metal are more likely to rate 8VM higher.
- People who prefer Metal are more likely to rate DT12 lower.
- People who prefer Pop/Melodic are more likely to rate 8VM lower.

Yeah, that doesn't look right.  :lol

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« Reply #68 on: February 01, 2016, 10:36:43 AM »
Yeah the sample sizes for "metal" and "pop/melodic" were very low. That first finding is an interesting one though! Can't say I would have expected that.

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« Reply #69 on: February 01, 2016, 10:41:01 AM »
Yeah, these results do seem a bit arbitrary unfortunately. But like I said, it'll likely be better with other variables. Almost everyone just answered that they didn't care about labels with that question anyway.