Understanding the equation for trending channels I need to find an equation that decides the logic behind a list of **_Top Trending_** Channels. For example, for each channel i have the following data available, 1. Number of Active People in a channel 2. Number of messages in that channel Take a look at the example below. There are three rows. The row 3 is supposed to be the Highest trending, followed by row 1 and then row 2. Now how can I convert this logic into an equation? `Active People | Messages | Channel Ranking` 5 500 Second highest Channel (2) 2 1000 Third highest Channel (3) 6 5000 Highest Trending Channel (1)

There are infinitely many ways to do what you want. For example, you can rank the channels by giving each one a score, and then rank them from highest to lowest score. There are infinitely many ways to so that, to:

* $s=\\#\text{active people}$
* $s=\\#\text{active people} \cdot \\#\text{messages}$
* $s=1000\cdot \\#\text{active people} + \\#\text{messages}$
* $s=\\#\text{active people} + \sin(\\#\text{messages})$



and so on and so on.

Now sure, some of the functions look stupid (why would you use a $\sin$ function?), but they give the ranking you want, and with no further detail, that's all you can say.