----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:36 PM Subject: Brin-l traffic analysis (relatively useless statistics)
> At long last, I have gotten quite a bit of the Brin-L traffic into my > database that looks for patterns in discussions. Up to now, I have only > used this to analyze stock market discussions. I did this by capturing the > header info from the Yahoo Group pages. That gave me about 60,000 records. > Note that I'm not looking at message bodies, just who posted, the subject > and when. In any event, the bodies for the vast majority of these messages > don't seem to be available on Yahoo anyway. You may note that Yahoo Groups > shows 79K messages. The missing ones are just that, missing. In the stock > boards, that means someone deleted them. Don't know what it means for > Brin-L. > > Some early results... > > We've had about 490 people posting (minus some whose names changed along the > way, making life more difficult for statistical analysis, dammit) and about > 15,000 subjects in 60,396 messages (minus the ones that Yahoo deleted). > Without benefit of a computer or calculator, it appears that the average > thread length is four messages. > > Top posters (out of 490 total): > > Julia Thompson 2,656 (1,601 subjects, or about 1.6 messages per subject) > Gord Sellar 2,491 (1,397 subjects, 1.8 mps) > JDG 2,196 (1,382 subjects, 1.6 mps) > Charlie Bell 1,965 (1,130, 1.7 mps) > Alberto Monteiro 1,912 (1,156, 1.6 mps) > Nicola Gebendinger: 1,433 (650, 2.2 mps) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1,414 (621, 2.3 mps) > Steve Sloan 1,341 (946, 1.4 mps) > Ronn Blankenship 1,293 (735, 1.8 mps) > J. van Baardwijk 1,226 (715, 1.7 mps) Your top 10 is quite different from the official top 10, Nick. From Jeroen's site, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/6074/ranking.html we get: 1 John D. Giorgis 3405 2 Gord Sellar 3247 3 Julia Thompson 3175 4 Steve Sloan 2480 5 Charlie Bell 2036 6 Alberto Monteiro 1996 7 Dan Minette 1957 8 Nicola Gebendinger 1949 9 Stefan Jones 1836 10 Bob Zimmerman 1781 I'm not sure how many of my posts you've missed, but it seems to be a good fraction. :-) You got almost all of Alberto's. Dan M.
