What will the data format be so we can plan ahead?
--- In [email protected], "Doug McCune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Within then next week I hope to have a fairly complete dataset of
> date, subject, and name of who posted for close to all the messages
> ever posted to flexcoders. I might also do a second pass to get full
> text of each message too. I say "close to all" because I'm scraping
> the mail archive website and that only shows 95,000 message, but in
> reality I think there are more like 116,000. Plus some of the messages
> from 2004 seems to have gotten a bit jacked on the mail archive site
> and don't show up with the proper subjects and senders (there's a
> block of a few hundred).
>
> But once I get that I'm going to post a sqlite DB file that has it all
> that you can load into an air app to play with. I'll let y'all know
> when you can start playing with the data.
>
> Doug
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Tim Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > flexCodersStatus = (mostRecentlyPostedThread == "The subject that
shall
> > not be named!" ? "Banned" : "Active");
> >
> > -TH :-)
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Matt Chotin <mchotin@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey folks,
> >>
> >> Given the recent big thread on the subject that shall not be
named, my
> >> colleague Suchit went ahead and got some interesting membership stats
> > since
> >> the beginning of the list.
> >>
> >> Number of people who:
> >>
> >> Joined group == 14036
> >> Left group == 3686
> >> Were Banned == 631
> >> Got Removed == 359
> >>
> >> I would say losing ~25% over time isn't too bad. That said we haven't
> > done
> >> analysis to see if there's a trend in dates or if we're losing more
> > people
> >> recently, etc. But interesting info for starters...
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >
> >
>
