Dynamics of discovery and the Heaps-Zipf relationship

When following a sequence — such as reading a text or tracking a user’s activity — one can measure how the ‘dictionary’ of distinct elements (types) grows with the number of observations (tokens). When this growth follows a power law, it is referred to as Heaps’ law, a regularity often associated with Zipf’s law and […] The post Dynamics of discovery and the Heaps-Zipf relationship appeared first on Deezer Newsroom .