Every now and then we do some research to highlight a topic. This can be anything depending on interest. Most often it is attempted to show some insights into society and a technique used in data science. The links to the research articles are listed below.
Insights Into the Voting and Influencing (or Cheating) Mechanism of the Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision winner is decided by the televote and jury. These scores can be influence through a clear mechanism, The participating countries can rally their supporters to support their country. Remarkably, the different juries all tend to support one country while dispersing their points across others. This makes them more likely to choose the winner. Furthermore, it appears the organizer can benefit a favourite by placing them next to poor performers, but in contrast, they can drive points from a participant away by placing two high-performers next to each other.
The Netherlands Will Win the Eurovision 2024 Based on Data Analysis Using YouTube and Spotify Performance
The popularity on the website of Eurovision and media streaming sites can be used to rank the different participants. These views and ratings can be used to create a ranking. These rankings are not correlated to each other. But based on who does well in all rankings, a prediction can be made who will come out as the winner. This is followed up by Italy and Croatia.
Finding The Best Fragrance That Makes A Man Smell Like A True Gentlemen with Pareto Ranking
There are many fragrances for man. These can be categorized based on the season (winter/summer) or on sillage (high/low). Finding the best one is a difficult task. However, with the use of some data from the internet and Pareto ranking the best ones can be identified. This can be used as a starting point to find the best fragrance.
The difference in partner availability for men and women by age
There is a belief that as we get older it becomes more difficult to find a partner. This analysis attempts to understand the partner availability at each age using the population size, single percentage and the willingness-to-date percentage. These are combined to derive a partner availability. At most times women have more potential available partners, but at the ages of 30 and 70 they come very close.
Has the time come to upgrade the blockbuster drug from one to two billion in revenue?
A blockbuster drug is considered to generate a revenue of 1 billion dollar per year. The nine largest companies were investigated for their most important products. This showed that most of them have between six and ten blockbuster drugs in their portfolio. More suprising the average drug price was 2 billion dollar and it can be recommended to upgrade the definition of blockbuster drug to a revenue of 2 billion dollar per year.
How much does it cost to manufacture a car
A car costs a lot of money to manufacture. Using the reported cost of goods sold for listed companies it can be determined that 80-85% of revenue goes into production costs. As usual this number is more complicated and as an additional finding, the research cost of a car company varies considerable.