MetaAnalysis
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This page indexes the analysis that has been done using the Infodump.
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Major threads
- The original Infodump announcement.
- User matching thread.
- The August 2009 Infodump revival thread.
- A thread for analysis, post-November-2009-Favorites experiment.
- A thread about the quickest series of posts, some Infodump analysis, and a Corpus prototype
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.
- FishBike is doing some awesome work.
- looked for interactions between users, in the user-matching thread, updated in the Infodump 2.0 thread, for many users.
- listed users with most favorites per comment, then again with over 1000 comments.
- listed users with most favorites per post.
- listed users with most comments per post.
- charted the Genius Index, taking number of favorites & number of contributions into account.
- charted users with most favorites per contribution, counting both posts & comments.
- charted users most / least mainstream in their favoriting tastes.
- ranked users by "average delay between posts being made and their first comment in those posts," then broke it down by subsite.
- graphed user contribution counts on mefi vs. AskMe, then charted relative percentages, then percentages over time.
- analysis: do people tend to favorite their contacts more? update.
- ranking "highest number of comments made by one user in a single thread," then as percentage of comments in the thread.
- ranks "Special Guests," most favorited for under 5 comments, with commentary by cortex.
- ranks most-commented deleted threads.
- ranks those who have commented in the most deleted threads, then sorted by percentage of deleted threads after their signup.
- runs some stats on time elapsed between new user registration & first posts.
- rakish_yet_centered looked for patterns in mutual favoriting, & provided a spreadsheet for the top users.
- vacapinta charted the users most added as contacts.
- jedicus charted users who most often had answers marked as best answers.
- mathlete:
- looks into degrees of separation to mathowie, following FishBike's lead.
- I think the degrees of separation from mathowie followed.
- charts users by number of mutual contacts - Most Promiscuous Mefites
- then charted most contacted - Celebrity Mefites - and also Groupie Mefites, who have contacted the most, with mutual contacts subtracted from the total.
- lists self-contacters.
- then provided full files for many of these categories.
Analysis of Threads / Posts
- rakish_yet_centered posted a list of threads with over 1000 comments, & the number of threads per year with over 300 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:
- gwint worked out then how many posts each mod deleted.
- chrisamiller charted the top users by number of best answers per day.
- hoppytoad checked out the ratio of favorites to comments to make graphs of percentiles (comments per thread, favorites per thread, average comments per user), & find threads with lots of "light" - many more favorites than comments.
- FishBike worked out:
- that threads with certain tags got the most favorites & comments, by subsite.
- which common tags were most often also used in the body, & which ones the least.
- which tags had "the most comments associated with them, by year," & the most favorites, then by comments & by month.
- threads that attracted the most first comments by new users.
- flatluigi looked at the longest Metatalk threads to date then broke it down by category (November 2009 - browser-killing long thread)
Analysis of Favorites
- pravit analyzed favorite inequality, focusing on users in the top 1% by highest favorite count and most favorites earned in the past year.
- How much of the favorites wealth is owned by the top 1% most favorited posters?
- Over the past year, what proportion of the favorites were taken by the top 1% favorite earners? What was the bar to being in the 1%? Were the top 10 richest favorite owners last year also among the top 10 highest favorite earners?
- How much did the top 1% favorite earners contribute to the site as measured by post and comment count, compared to the 99%? How many favorites per comment do the top 1% favorite earners make on average, compared to the 99%? Did the top 10 favorite earners reach their status by posting a lot, or were they awarded more favorites per comment than others? Which 1%er had the lowest average favorites per comment? Which 1%er had the highest?
- 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
- a list of most favorited users (also, on Music)
- most favorited comments
- Favorite accumulation during the November 2009 experiment (warning: huge thread)
- rakish_yet_centered posted posts with over 200 favorites.
- Pronoiac posted graphs of favorites vs comments for threads.
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
- rakish_yet_centered checks the timing of deleted threads, & also Postroad specifically.
- FishBike graphed "Activity by Site, Type, and Hour/Weekday/Day of Month" for the different subsites.
- Pronoiac analyzed:
- new signups over time, annotated with significant events
- the fraction of successful signups
- incomplete signups - overall & pre-$5-signup
- AskMe questions asked per month, Dec 2003 - Dec 2012.
- Music posts per month, 2006-2011.
- Overall monthly posts to Mefi, AskMe, Metatalk, & Music on the same graph, then on a logarithmic scale for more detail on MeTa & Music, through 2011.
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.
Unsorted
- The Metafilter Data Playground by null terminated. No longer in service.
