A WORKED INVESTIGATION

What does repeated overlap look like?

Start with one reviewer’s history. Follow nearby five-star reviews of the same products. See which reviewers appear again.

Generated example · no real accounts

ONE RESULT, EXPLAINED

Reviewer demo-129
appears in 7 distinct egos.

The search opened 10 reviewer histories and reached 91 reviewers. This reviewer has a corroboration count of 7.

An ego is the local neighborhood around one opened reviewer: people giving five stars to the same products around the same time. Each distinct opened ego adds at most one count to a reviewer, even when several products overlap.

Where the count comes from

Here are 3 supporting egos. Each row shows one shared product and the two five-star review dates, within the selected ±28-day window.

Examples supporting the selected reviewer’s computed corroboration count
Opened reviewer	Shared product	Opened reviewer’s date	demo-129’s date	Count added
demo-18	P00004	2019-04-07	2019-04-03	+1 ego
demo-89	P00004	2019-03-27	2019-04-03	+1 ego
demo-108	P00004	2019-04-06	2019-04-03	+1 ego

These rows are examples from the computed result. The complete ledger below includes the remaining supporting egos and product connections.

FROM A RESULT TO A CONTRIBUTION

What would you share?

An investigation records what was observed and where it came from. See a small excerpt from this same example and how future reviewed contributions would work.

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Change the search settings 10 histories · cap 10 · ±28 days

The budget limits histories opened. The cap guides which reviewer is opened next; it does not cap the count reported for that reviewer. The time window defines nearby activity.

Inspect the full result Counts, supporting egos, product bursts, and search history

Reviews in the example610Full generated panel; the search opens selected histories.

Histories opened10

Complete product windows9seed egos

Highest corroboration7distinct seed egos

COLLECTION PROGRESS

Each history adds context.

91 reviewers reached

CORROBORATION LEDGER

Inspect the reasons.

Up to 30 reviewers

A count records appearance across distinct opened neighborhoods. Expand a row to see supporting seeds, products, and weeks.

demo-1292 products7 egos

7 distinct product-window-complete seed egos; 7 observed seed egos.

Observed count, including incomplete coverage: 7

Source seed	Product	Week (day index)
demo-18	P00004	90
demo-89	P00004	90
demo-108	P00004	90
demo-42	P00004	90
demo-84	P00000	97
demo-177	P00000	97
demo-47	P00000	97

demo-423 products7 egos

7 distinct product-window-complete seed egos; 7 observed seed egos.

Observed count, including incomplete coverage: 7

Source seed	Product	Week (day index)
demo-18	P00004	111
demo-89	P00004	111
demo-129	P00004	111
demo-108	P00004	111
demo-84	P00000	27
demo-177	P00002	-1
demo-47	P00000	27

demo-1061 products5 egos

5 distinct product-window-complete seed egos; 5 observed seed egos.

Observed count, including incomplete coverage: 5

Source seed	Product	Week (day index)
demo-18	P00004	90
demo-89	P00004	90
demo-129	P00004	90
demo-108	P00004	90
demo-42	P00004	90

demo-182 products5 egos

5 distinct product-window-complete seed egos; 5 observed seed egos.

Observed count, including incomplete coverage: 5

Source seed	Product	Week (day index)
demo-25	P00025	83
demo-89	P00004	90
demo-129	P00004	90
demo-108	P00004	90
demo-42	P00004	90

demo-1011 products4 egos

4 distinct product-window-complete seed egos; 4 observed seed egos.