Posts vs. Joined Date

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:11 am

Histogram of post counts of top 417 users (total posts >= 100) differentiated into two buckets of joined dates:

No surprise -- the later you joined the forum, the liklier you are to have fewer total posts.

Scatter plot of Total Posts vs. Joined Date (same population):

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~Neal

Yankeeman84 · Post by **Yankeeman84** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:16 am

If we have over 2000 posts, do we get a free doughnut and coffee courtesy of the OO Admins and Mods?

I like Krispy Kreme and Starbucks.

The Preacher · Post by **The Preacher** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:30 am

Hey, I see my dot! I'm that ~3k that wasn't a first week signup. I'm special that way.

And only that way.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:42 am

Next: PPD vs. joined date.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:35 pm

Don't you have real work to do?

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:38 pm

The Meal is an outlier. The Meal is an outlier. Na nana nana.

Enough · Post by **Enough** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:25 pm

Clearly the peak oil moment was reached sometime between 09/04-11/04, and it's almost exactly the curve Hubert predicted (well cept' in reverse, heh)! Are you going to publish?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:29 pm

Can you correlate the joined date to global pirate activity?

That might be a good one to have handy for potential site investors.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:33 pm

Smoove_B wrote:Can you correlate the joined date to global pirate activity?

That might be a good one to have handy for potential site investors.

Can you get me more recent data?

1998 Pirate Attacks By Region

I know there were some attacks near Singapore last February when I was there.

[edit:] http://www.iccwbo.org/home/news_archive ... report.asp 2002, I'm getting closer...
[edit2:] http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/ma ... 202001.doc PIRATE MAP!!

~Neal

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:43 pm

Damn you're fast. All I found was this map for 2004 and this 2004 annual summary of Piracy.

I'm beginning to think my pirate resignation letter could have been argued as legit.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:04 pm

Good stuff, Smoove. I'll hold off until I can perform a correlation of a full year's worth of data.

Stay on the line...
~Neal

Yankeeman84 · Post by **Yankeeman84** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:46 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:The Meal is an outlier. The Meal is an outlier. Na nana nana.

If you take The Meal out of the correlation, the histogram would explode.

Captain Caveman · Post by **Captain Caveman** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:40 pm

Nice work once again. Do you happen to get a correlation value? Looks at least like a .8 to me. If Daehawk had joined OO earlier, it would be even stronger.

Asharak · Post by **Asharak** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:35 pm

Neal, you make my head explode.

I mean that in a good way, of course...

- Ash