{"items": [{"author": "Robert", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628117680012", "anchor": "fb-628117680012", "service": "fb", "text": "On first glance, my principal surprise is that Hey outranks Dosido.", "timestamp": "1379170993"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628120150062", "anchor": "fb-628120150062", "service": "fb", "text": "That surprises me as well. I expected ladies chain to be higher as well.", "timestamp": "1379172138"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628122240872", "anchor": "fb-628122240872", "service": "fb", "text": "Doesn't your analysis imply that all the dances are called with equal frequency? I would observe that a UK study would probably put swinging a lot lower.", "timestamp": "1379172994"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628122580192", "anchor": "fb-628122580192", "service": "fb", "text": "If there were a way to take all of Frank Hsieh videos and pull all the calls out of them, I think there would be a more accurate result (not sure voice recognition could do that reliably).", "timestamp": "1379173170"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628122979392", "anchor": "fb-628122979392", "service": "fb", "text": "It would also depend on the dance series you are calling for. Some dances have a higher percentage of new dancers and others more experienced. It would be interesting to break it down by dance series.", "timestamp": "1379173482"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628123114122", "anchor": "fb-628123114122", "service": "fb", "text": "Most of my favorites are at the bottom of the list. I wonder if they are my favorites for that exact reason and if they were done more often they would not be as exciting.", "timestamp": "1379173553"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628123203942", "anchor": "fb-628123203942", "service": "fb", "text": "Perry good point. There are gong to be all sorts of biases. Part of the question is what are we trying to learn from the study.", "timestamp": "1379173627"}, {"author": "William", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628123353642", "anchor": "fb-628123353642", "service": "fb", "text": "Outstanding analysis! Bravo!", "timestamp": "1379173685"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628123393562", "anchor": "fb-628123393562", "service": "fb", "text": "Also surprised that the Rory O'More spin is not even on the list. I figured they would be slightly below petronella turns on the list.", "timestamp": "1379173719"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628123418512", "anchor": "fb-628123418512", "service": "fb", "text": "Michael I remember a time when contra corners was a lot more popular, it might have been more fun then since people 1) were better at it and 2) could do cool variations off of it.", "timestamp": "1379173743"}, {"author": "Sofia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628125713912", "anchor": "fb-628125713912", "service": "fb", "text": "So, um, you totally stole an idea that was a seed for what I was going to grow into a quantitative analysis of dance as a thesis topic. Including the entropy of contra dance. But I ended up not doing that, so I'm glad you did. Very well done!", "timestamp": "1379175540"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628127470392", "anchor": "fb-628127470392", "service": "fb", "text": "@Perry: \"surprised that the Rory O'More spin is not even on the list\"
Looking back at the data, that's an error on my part. It's included now.", "timestamp": "1379176927"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628128508312", "anchor": "fb-628128508312", "service": "fb", "text": "@Phillip: \"take all of Frank Hsieh videos and pull all the calls out of them\"
You wouldn't have to do voice recognition; you could build something to recognize the movements.", "timestamp": "1379177635"}, {"author": "Sofia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628129970382", "anchor": "fb-628129970382", "service": "fb", "text": "From my experience in both gesture recognition and voice recognition, it seems it would be significantly harder to build something to recognize contra dance movements.", "timestamp": "1379178934"}, {"author": "Scott", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628143009252", "anchor": "fb-628143009252", "service": "fb", "text": "This is good. With data like this you can start studying other breakdowns. For instance, a dance may call the swing twice, or the circle twice. You could weight moves by duration, and compile ranks for the whole dance repertoire for time spent doing a given move, identify moves that are commonly sequenced, etc etc", "timestamp": "1379187582"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1379190532721", "service": "gp", "text": "\" I was surprised heys were so common and petronellas were so uncommon.\"\n
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\nI'd take your surprise seriously! Given the original goal, I think your intuition might be as good as or better than this method. ", "timestamp": 1379190532}, {"author": "Holly", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/628116926522?comment_id=628158069072", "anchor": "fb-628158069072", "service": "fb", "text": "Oh this is great! I would love to see how this varied by geography and by year. I'm surprised by what I see-- but I think that's based on my my experience dancing (mostly) in Maine, (mostly) 7-14 years ago...", "timestamp": "1379198549"}]}