On: PageRank explained

[srean]

HodgeRank is a very different beast. It is nothing like Pagerank. Its input is not a citation/link graph but a list of paired ordered preferences.

In HodgeRank the goal is to combine a large list of pairwise preferences how to obtain the most representative total order.

[aesthesia → srean]

Yes, but the comment I replied to outlined a way of using PageRank to aggregate noisy pairwise preferences into a global order.

[srean → aesthesia]

That's right. My bad and my apologies. I should have read the context properly.