Instructables Stats 2008 Answered

12 years ago

Hey, Ed. Could you annotate the time histories (especially the weekly plot) with the contest dates? I could probably collect the information myself by hand, but having arrows (or range-bars) on the plot would make the data self-describing.

Reply 12 years ago

It's not real pretty, but I added markers to the monthly graph to show when a contest was starting and ending. For some reason it will not upload as a photo but you can download the file. :-\

Monthlygif

fungus amungus

Reply 12 years ago

Your file name is wrong. There's no period between the name and "gif"

fungus amungus

Reply 12 years ago

Like this.

n8man

Reply 12 years ago

Maybe more like lines that go from start to stop of a contest, on the weekly one.

Goodhart

Reply 12 years ago

A horizontal bar graph in other words?

n8man

Reply 12 years ago

More like a horizontal timeline...

Reply 12 years ago

Yes...that's what I meant by "range bar" in my original comment (at the top of this subthread). |---------| However, as Fungus Amungus has pointed out, it's a lot of work (*) and he has other issues to resolve.

(*) It's a lot of work because you have to manually go to each contest announcement to pull the date information, then annotate it onto the histogram. Adrian went to a substantial effort for the very nice plot she made (above).

Reply 12 years ago

The file still worked for me.

Reply 12 years ago

Heh. So I see. Thanks for posting it below. :)

Reply 12 years ago

Weird. For reasons I don't understand, my Mac thinks that was an MPEG movie. That's very interesting! You can clearly see the correlations throughout the year.

Reply 12 years ago

:D My guess is that it has generic files assigned to whatever movie player you have. Yes. For instance, if I recall correctly, May, the month with the lowest ibles, has no contest activity at all, while December is one of the peak months and one of the ones with the most contests starting and ending.

Reply 12 years ago

Yeah problem. If only you had remembers the "dot" between "y" and "g", none of this would have happened :->

Reply 12 years ago

:D Yeah sorry about that.

_{Now try and motivate me to finish the weekly breakdown like I was going to do for you. :P}

Reply 12 years ago

:-P Hey, it actually worked fine for me, I was just surprised that my Mac "decided" (for reasons that are clearly inexplicable) that your obvious graphic file was actually an MPEG movie :-) When I tried to play it, it was .... reallly .... slow ... motion ....

Reply 12 years ago

Glad it worked. Muahahaha!

Reply 12 years ago

lmao

Der Bradly

Reply 12 years ago

lol

Reply 12 years ago

:-D

Goodhart

Reply 12 years ago

If only you had remembers?

Reply 12 years ago

I can haz spelling? _{^{Kelsey fail}}

Goodhart

Reply 12 years ago

Maybe you are tired tonight ? :-)

Reply 12 years ago

It is not that big of mistake.

dsman195276

Reply 12 years ago

actually, you're wrong. as the graph shows there were two contest that went through may, one that started in march and one that started in april. both went right through may and so they where not labeled on the graph.

Reply 12 years ago

Ah, but no contests started or ended in may.

dsman195276

Reply 12 years ago

i know, i never said you were wrong with your graph, but the reason may did not have many instructables was because of something other then contests.

Reply 12 years ago

Point made for Adrian.

Reply 12 years ago

Don't forget January had no contest either from the chart.

Reply 12 years ago

Yeah, but the chart doesn't have data from 2007 (we could find the 2007 version of the posting), so you can't draw any conclusions about January from the information given.

Reply 12 years ago

Ok that is true but i'm just using it for now till someone finds the 2007 post.

Reply 12 years ago

Someone? Why, '''you''' could be that very someone! What a great benefit that would be to the rest of us!

Reply 12 years ago

Well i'll try to find it then.