Information on Chaska Meter

Copied it from a post by Vijay - group admin ⭐️

Hi friends,

I am sure many of you by now must have noticed the arrows that are coming beside your Favorite TV Shows on India-Forums.com homepage.




From the past 4 months we have been internally computing Chaska Meter rankings to evaluate a weekly ranking system for TV Shows. Being the #1 Television portal in the country with over 2.5 Millions monthly Unique visitors from all of the world and over 60 Million page views, we felt we have a significant enough population on our website to be able to accurately compute rankings for the television industry.

Site Demographic snapshot as on 15th August 2010




How we are computing our data and ranking the shows?

Instead of just ranking the shows on the number of hits the show gets on our website, there are a lot more parameters that we are using to most accurately arrive on our Chaska Meter rankings. From the amount of media coverage a show receieves to the number of hits the show gets on google, we are trying to get a 360 degree view of the telelvision show and its popularity. Furthermore, we are also placing a lot of emphasis on the number of unique visits a show receieves on our site as well as tying into fans and hits on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook (will be adding Orkut soon). Lastly, our Members have a huge part to play in the Chaska Meter rankings as they will be rating their favorite shows on the scale of 1- 5 (where 5 is best and 1 is BAD) based on the story line (or that days episode).

As we collect more data, we plan to fine tune the Chaska Meter over time to make it more accurate and robust.

Do we take into account the TRP / TAM Ratings?

Well, TAM ratings have a very small sample size (around 7000 that's what I have heard) and are only relevant in India. But what about the rest of the world? Indian Television shows today have a large global audience with fans from US, UK, Dubai, etc. So no we do not take into account the TRP/TAM ratings and instead we are looking to build an alternative to the TRP but its still a bit early to make that claim. Embarrassed Though still in its Beta Phase we are looking to improve our system and make it as close to accurate as possible over time.

How often will the Chaska Meter be updated?

We will be posting the ChaskaMeter chart (Top 100) every Monday noon IST starting from 23 August 2010. We will also be sharing our Demographics like Male/Female ratio, Geographies, Age Group based on which we have computed our data.





We welcome all your comments, feedback and constructive criticism to make this system better.

Regards,
Vijay

India-Forums Development Team

thanks Sam... i've seen this before and was hoping that by now they'll come out with a more transparent explanation for their calculations... guess they are still "working on it" 😆

I noticed that some of the rating methods have changed since this artical was published. I will try and request more information on the latest methods they are using to rate a forum soon.

Thanx for sharing it is so informative

hmmm. Thanks for sharing but still i'm not clear enough 😕

very useful info indeed...
But why the forum does not display rules of scoring on the home page...it seems unfair to motivate members to hit chaska meter frequently but not count it...if a single vote is counted per day for everymember then the chaska meter should display 'already voted' message in case if it is not to be counted...

Originally posted by: Anondo.R

hmmm. Thanks for sharing but still i'm not clear enough 😕

Originally posted by: rushy107

this is an excellent way to keep on track because even i was thinking how can this show be ranked down because there are millions and millions of viewers, i request the admin to please stay on track and roll this system out to a global audience so their presence are being counted as well. from my point of view this show is being underestimated and i am very upset regarding this! This message should also be read by THE CV'S!!!

U hv expressed our feelings so well that i feel u should pm this message to all moderators separately...

Originally posted by: ssrbaqri

very useful info indeed...
But why the forum does not display rules of scoring on the home page...it seems unfair to motivate members to hit chaska meter frequently but not count it...if a single vote is counted per day for everymember then the chaska meter should display 'already voted' message in case if it is not to be counted...