Zipf's Law and Why It Remains Unexplained

Vsauce · Explainer · 21 min · 2015 · YouTube title: The Zipf Mystery

Why it's here

Linked as an entertaining introduction to Zipf's law and power-law distributions.

What it covers

Vsauce's explainer on Zipf's law, the pattern in which the frequency of a word is inversely related to its rank. It shows the pattern across many domains and discusses why it remains unexplained.