More insight from being more focused: analysis of clustered market apps
Maleknaz Nayebi, Homayoon Farrahi, Ada Lee, Henry Cho, Guenther Ruhe · 2016
The increasing attraction of mobile apps has inspired researchers to analyze apps from different perspectives. As any software product, apps have different attributes such as size, content maturity, rating, category or number of downloads. Current research studies mostly consider sampling across all apps. This often results in comparisons of apps being quite different in nature and category (games compared with weather and calendar apps), also being different in size and complexity. Similar to proprietary software and web-based services, more specific results can be expected from looking at more homogeneous samples as they can be received as a result of applying clustering.