alt Hacker NewsI had the exact same concern with the featured article: I hope they are keeping separate statistics for spontaneously browsed views vs views specifically through this page. If not, the less visited bins will rise and potentialy make all views uniform in the extreme... I also hope they keep dates for the views, with PCA you can still distinguish distinct distributions being weighted with coefficients changing over time (say because of this internal page, or any external page effectively providing the same service!)
I wonders this as well. The page mentions the stat is based on “whether an art piece hasn't been visited on their website very much.” I’m wondering if since this is not on their website if that stat isn’t impacted.