PL alignment chart

pldb alignment

Andreas Zeller

Chaotic Engineer. 30% colons, a repeat co-author on 80% of papers, 38% at FSE, has never met a POPL.

Why Engineer

86% of papers at SE venues

77th percentile · theory 0%, systems 9%, SE 86%

Repeat co-author

80%

36th percentile · more is lawful

Colon titles

30%

52nd percentile · more is chaotic

Top-venue share

38% FSE

33rd percentile · more is lawful

Lawfulness

24th percentile

top third Lawful, bottom Chaotic

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Column: whichever of theory, systems or SE venue share (of your 56 papers) has your highest percentile. Row: lawfulness = mean of pct(repeat co-author), 1 − pct(colon titles), pct(top-venue share), then ranked again: top third Lawful, bottom third Chaotic. Percentiles among the 4,969 authors with 5+ papers in PLDB. Repeat co-author: share of your co-authored papers with someone who is on another of your papers too.

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