{"id":75608,"date":"2017-01-04T01:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T01:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inthemix.junkee.com\/?p=149015"},"modified":"2017-01-04T01:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T01:27:06","slug":"a-computer-science-nerd-has-predicted-triple-js-hottest-100-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=75608","title":{"rendered":"A computer science nerd has predicted triple j\u2019s Hottest 100 results"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don\u2019t want to know the results of this year\u2019s Hottest 100, close your browser now.<\/p>\n

A computer science grad from the University of New South Wales has come up with a way to predict the winners of triple j\u2019s annual music countdown, and he\u2019s confident it\u2019s legit.<\/p>\n

100 Warm Tunas<\/a><\/strong> is the brainchild of Nick Whyte. Collecting data from Instagram posts tagged with the hashtags #hottest100, #triplejhottest100, #triplejhottest1002016 and #hottest1002016, the website has tallied thousands of votes and allowed Whyte to generate an accurate prediction of what the final count will look like.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did this sort of thing last year, and shared the results with five or six friends,\u201d Whyte told our sister site Junkee. \u201cLast year I got the top three, and if you don\u2019t count the order of the top ten I got eight out of ten.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Whyte says he was inspired by the Warmest 100<\/a><\/strong>, a short-lived website that accurately predicted 92 out of 100 songs in the 2013 count by cracking the algorithms that let users share their ballots on Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels. The website drew the ire of triple j management, who ended up changing their social sharing system to make the outcome harder to predict.<\/p>\n

Last year we also saw the Tepid 100<\/a><\/strong> use Instagram data to guess the end result\u00a0\u2013 although the order was somewhat askew.<\/p>\n

So who\u00a0does Warm Tuna say is going to win? At the time of publication, with data still rolling in, Amy Shark\u2019s Adore<\/em> currently sits at number one, followed by Flume\u2019s Never Be Like You<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs it currently stands I\u2019m pretty sure that Flume\u2019s going to top it,\u201d says Whyte. \u201cAdore<\/em> being up at number one, I don\u2019t know about that. You can see that Adore<\/em> has got 25 more votes than Flume, but that\u2019s really nothing. 25 votes in a two per cent sample size, that can swing heaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with\u00a0Never Be Like You<\/em>, Flume’s also back in there at #8 with\u00a0Say It<\/em>, while Peking Duk’s\u00a0Stranger\u00a0<\/em>comes in at #10. Elsewhere, R\u00dcF\u00dcS clock in with\u00a0Innerbloom<\/em>, Pnau make a comeback with\u00a0Chameleon,\u00a0<\/em>Daft Punk get in by way of The Weeknd with\u00a0Starboy<\/em>, and Kaytranada’s\u00a0Glowed Up\u00a0<\/em>sneaks in at the end.<\/p>\n

Check out the full ranking over here<\/a><\/strong>, and listen to the playlist\u00a0full of Whyte’s picks below.<\/p>\n