MetaAnalysis
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This page indexes the analysis that has been done using the Infodump. This is largely a collection of the graphs on the Infodump MeTa thread..
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[edit] Analysis of users
- Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey:
- Pronoiac posted a list of short usernames.
- Plutor has posted
- a list of "all of the people who made at least 100 comments total, haven't participated since at least 1 Sept 2007 and whose last comment was in a thread with more than 100 comments" to see if long, contentious threads scared people away.
- Average FPPs per user, Average questions per user, & Average questions per user with some overwhelming superstars removed, grouped.
- Average answers per user, in groups.
- MetaMonkey:
- plots the number of posts on the blue by each user Y-axis: number of posts by a given user - MeTa comment
- the same for the top 675 posters only - MeTa comment
- signal posted dendrograms - clustering users by the tags they use.
[edit] Analysis of Threads / Posts
- rakish_yet_centered posted a list of threads with over 1000 comments
- fantabulous timewaster graphed comments per posting time, probability of getting certain numbers of comments, & the delay between first & last comments (or unique users?) in a thread.
- thrako plots the number of AskMe answers by post Each point represents a post, and for each point the x-coordinate is log(number of answers on that post), and the y-coordinate is log( (number of posts with more answers)/(number of answers) ). MeTa comment
- Plutor has posted
- Andy Baio has a bunch of interesting graphs at Waxy:
[edit] Analysis of Favorites
- Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey:
- BEIM graphs the number of favorites against length of username The y-axis is the total number of favorites a user has received. It appears that there is a statistically significant relationship, with each added character to a username adding 2.8 favorites on average. MeTa comment
- BEIM lists the top self-favoriters
- Plutor has posted
- rakish_yet_centered posted posts with over 200 favorites.
- Pronoiac posted graphs of favorites vs comments for threads.
[edit] Analysis of Time of day, or otherwise over time
- Andy Baio:
- most active days by comments & by posts - (also most active threads, above)
- number of posts & comments by month
- number of new users by month
- Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey:
- Galvatron posted some awesome & pretty graphs of volume of posting over time.
- hattifattener posted a page of graphs regarding comments & thread ages -
- a histogram of the post's location on the front page at the time of each user's first comment on that post
- how well a thread is able to attract new commenters over time
- how long threads take to receive a comment
- Plutor posted a graph of activity by day & thread in response to a request from cortex
[edit] Analysis of Best Answers
This data isn't currently included in the Infodump.
- tkolar listed "Top ten users by number of "best answers" for 2004-2006," pre-dating the Infodump.
[edit] Unsorted
- The Metafilter Data Playground by null terminated. No longer in service.

