Some badges are commonplace, and others are hard to get. This uses the relative "weight" of each badge (http://data.stackexchange.com/photography/s/1306/badges-to-aspire-to) to rank users on badges earned.
Q&A for those who study, teach, research and apply economics and econometrics
-- Users by Weighted Badge Score -- Some badges are commonplace, and others are hard to get. This uses the relative "weight" of each badge (http://data.stackexchange.com/photography/s/1306/badges-to-aspire-to) to rank users on badges earned. DECLARE @badgeweight TABLE ( name varchar(100) collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS, weight float) INSERT @badgeweight SELECT name, ((SELECT TOP 1 count(Name) FROM Badges WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM tags WHERE tags.tagname=badges.name) GROUP BY name ORDER BY count(Name) DESC)+0.0) / count(Name) as weight FROM Badges WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM tags WHERE tags.tagname=badges.name) GROUP BY name SELECT TOP 100 Badges.UserId as [User Link], count(*) as Badges, round(sum(weight),0) as [Weighted Badge Score] FROM @badgeweight AS w JOIN Badges ON w.name = Badges.name GROUP BY Badges.UserId ORDER BY [Weighted Badge Score] DESC