1. The paper describing powerlaw has been published in
PLoS ONE! There is currently some rendering issue with a panel of Figure 1, however, so I would look to the
arXiv paper until that gets sorted.
2. Thanks to
Adam Ginsburg for getting me to analyze the runtime of certain parts of the fitting process. A user-invisible tweak has now decreased the runtime by up to 50%, depending on the size of your data. Another user-invisible tweak throws out negative numbers in the data, which had previously caused terrifically terrible runtimes as powerlaw tried to fit them anyway.
Thanks for using powerlaw!