us attention data wikipedia trending

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dataset summary · high confidence anthropic:claude-opus-4-7

This dataset captures 500 trending Wikipedia articles, with each row identified by a unique title and described by days_in_top_100, peak_views, total_views, and a daily_views series. All three numeric columns are heavily right-skewed with significant outliers — total_views skew is 10.4 with a max of ~23.9M against a median of ~213K, and peak_views shows similar behavior. Most articles spend only a few days in the top 100 (median 3, max 30), but a long tail extends well beyond. Start by examining the distribution of total_views and days_in_top_100 to understand how concentrated attention is on a few breakout articles.

citing: days_in_top_100.stats · peak_views.stats · total_views.stats · title.top_values · row_count

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total_views · Look for an extreme right tail — a few articles dominate total attention while most cluster near the median of ~213K.

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Histogram bins for total_views (median: 213065.0).
bin	count
7.645e+04 – 1.159e+06	449
1.159e+06 – 2.241e+06	27
2.241e+06 – 3.324e+06	13
3.324e+06 – 4.406e+06	4
4.406e+06 – 5.489e+06	1
5.489e+06 – 6.571e+06	1
6.571e+06 – 7.654e+06	1
7.654e+06 – 8.736e+06	2
8.736e+06 – 9.818e+06	0
9.818e+06 – 1.09e+07	1
1.09e+07 – 1.198e+07	0
1.198e+07 – 1.307e+07	0
1.307e+07 – 1.415e+07	0
1.415e+07 – 1.523e+07	0
1.523e+07 – 1.631e+07	0
1.631e+07 – 1.74e+07	0
1.74e+07 – 1.848e+07	0
1.848e+07 – 1.956e+07	0
1.956e+07 – 2.064e+07	0
2.064e+07 – 2.173e+07	0
2.173e+07 – 2.281e+07	0
2.281e+07 – 2.389e+07	1

peak_views · Check how peak single-day views are distributed; skew of 9.7 suggests a handful of viral spikes far above the typical ~104K.

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Histogram bins for peak_views (median: 104303.0).
bin	count
4.033e+04 – 2.208e+05	430
2.208e+05 – 4.013e+05	38
4.013e+05 – 5.818e+05	19
5.818e+05 – 7.623e+05	5
7.623e+05 – 9.428e+05	1
9.428e+05 – 1.123e+06	3
1.123e+06 – 1.304e+06	2
1.304e+06 – 1.484e+06	0
1.484e+06 – 1.665e+06	0
1.665e+06 – 1.845e+06	0
1.845e+06 – 2.026e+06	0
2.026e+06 – 2.206e+06	0
2.206e+06 – 2.387e+06	0
2.387e+06 – 2.567e+06	1
2.567e+06 – 2.748e+06	0
2.748e+06 – 2.928e+06	0
2.928e+06 – 3.109e+06	0
3.109e+06 – 3.289e+06	0
3.289e+06 – 3.47e+06	0
3.47e+06 – 3.65e+06	0
3.65e+06 – 3.831e+06	0
3.831e+06 – 4.011e+06	1

days_in_top_100 · See how briefly most articles trend — the median is just 3 days, but some persist up to 30.

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Histogram bins for days_in_top_100 (median: 3.0).
bin	count
1 – 2.318	247
2.318 – 3.636	60
3.636 – 4.955	47
4.955 – 6.273	35
6.273 – 7.591	12
7.591 – 8.909	11
8.909 – 10.23	17
10.23 – 11.55	9
11.55 – 12.86	6
12.86 – 14.18	18
14.18 – 15.5	5
15.5 – 16.82	5
16.82 – 18.14	2
18.14 – 19.45	2
19.45 – 20.77	0
20.77 – 22.09	5
22.09 – 23.41	1
23.41 – 24.73	0
24.73 – 26.05	3
26.05 – 27.36	0
27.36 – 28.68	1
28.68 – 30	14

title · All 500 titles are unique; inspect title length to get a feel for the kinds of pages trending.

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Top values for title (20 unique shown, of 500 total).
value	count	share
1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre	1	0.2%
.xxx	1	0.2%
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures	1	0.2%
Dhurandhar	1	0.2%
Avatar:_Fire_and_Ash	1	0.2%
Nicolás_Maduro	1	0.2%
Stranger_Things	1	0.2%
Marty_Supreme	1	0.2%
Stranger_Things_season_5	1	0.2%
List_of_highest-grossing_Indian_films	1	0.2%
Bruce_Lee	1	0.2%
Heated_Rivalry	1	0.2%
Venezuela	1	0.2%
One_Battle_After_Another	1	0.2%
Donald_Trump	1	0.2%
ChatGPT	1	0.2%
Brigitte_Bardot	1	0.2%
Pluribus_(TV_series)	1	0.2%
The_Housemaid_(2025_film)	1	0.2%
Google_Chrome	1	0.2%

Schema

5 columns

Per-column summary. Click column name to jump to its detail.
				Alerts
title	categorical	0.0%	500	long_tail
total_views	numeric	0.0%	500	high_skew outliers
days_in_top_100	numeric	0.0%	27	high_skew outliers
peak_views	numeric	0.0%	499	high_skew outliers
daily_views	unknown	0.0%	—	skipped

title

categorical identifier long_tail

Wikipedia-style article titles with underscores (e.g. '1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre', 'Stranger_Things_season_5'), unique across all 500 rows (n_unique=500, entropy_ratio=1.0). Every value appears exactly once, so this functions as a row identifier rather than a categorical feature. The long_tail alert simply reflects that uniqueness. Treatment: Treat as a row key; drop from modelling or use only for joins and lookup. high · anthropic:claude-opus-4-7

n: 500
nulls: 0 (0.0%)
unique: 500
top_value: 1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
top_rate: 0.002
cardinality: 500
entropy: 8.966
entropy_ratio: 1

total_views

numeric feature high_skew outliers

Likely a per-row view count, with all 500 values unique and no nulls or zeros. The distribution is severely right-skewed (skew 10.44, kurtosis 149.66): the median is 213,065 but the mean is 580,331 and the max reaches 23,890,102, roughly 112x the median. Outliers make up 10.2% of rows (51 of 500), so a small set of viral entries dominates the tail. Treatment: log-transform before modelling to tame the heavy right tail. high · anthropic:claude-opus-4-7

n: 500
nulls: 0 (0.0%)
unique: 500
min: 76,451
max: 2.389e+07
mean: 5.803e+05
median: 213,065
std: 1.424e+06
q1: 1.151e+05
q3: 535,224
iqr: 4.201e+05
skew: 10.44
kurtosis: 149.7
n_outliers: 51
outlier_rate: 0.102
zero_rate: 0

days_in_top_100

numeric feature high_skew outliers

This column counts days a record spent in some top-100 ranking, with 500 non-null integer values ranging from 1 to 30 and a median of just 3. The distribution is heavily right-skewed (skew 2.45, kurtosis 5.98) — most items churn out fast while a long tail lingers, producing 56 outliers (11.2% outlier rate) above the q3 of 6. Mean (5.18) sits well above median, and only 27 unique values suggest tenure is bounded and discrete. Treatment: Log- or sqrt-transform before modelling to tame the right skew and outlier mass. high · anthropic:claude-opus-4-7

n: 500
nulls: 0 (0.0%)
unique: 27
min: 1
max: 30
mean: 5.176
median: 3
std: 6.239
q1: 2
q3: 6
iqr: 4
skew: 2.449
kurtosis: 5.979
n_outliers: 56
outlier_rate: 0.112
zero_rate: 0

peak_views

numeric feature high_skew outliers

A numeric measure of peak viewership per record, with 499 unique values across 500 rows and no nulls or zeros. The distribution is severely right-skewed (skew 9.71, kurtosis 127.99): the median is 104,303 but the mean is 159,797 and the max reaches 4,011,044, well above q3 of 148,907. 57 outliers (11.4%) sit above the upper whisker, suggesting a small tail of viral peaks dominates the variance (std 250,171). Treatment: log-transform before modelling to tame the heavy right tail. high · anthropic:claude-opus-4-7

n: 500
nulls: 0 (0.0%)
unique: 499
min: 40,332
max: 4.011e+06
mean: 1.598e+05
median: 104,303
std: 2.502e+05
q1: 7.73e+04
q3: 148,907
iqr: 7.16e+04
skew: 9.709
kurtosis: 128
n_outliers: 57
outlier_rate: 0.114
zero_rate: 0

daily_views

unknown other skipped

Column 'daily_views' was skipped by the profiler, so no type, uniqueness, or distribution stats were computed despite a full 500 non-null rows. The name suggests a per-day view count (likely numeric and right-skewed in practice), but nothing in the evidence confirms that. Re-run profiling with this column included before drawing any conclusions. Treatment: Re-profile the column to recover type and distribution before any downstream use. low · anthropic:claude-opus-4-7

n: 500
nulls: 0 (0.0%)
unique: —