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..

Contents 1 Analysis of users 2 Analysis of Threads / Posts 3 Analysis of Favorites 4 Analysis of Time of day, or otherwise over time 5 Analysis of Best Answers 6 Unsorted

[edit] Analysis of users

• Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey:
  • graphs number of AskMe posts against userid number - MeTa comment
  • BEIM graphs number of comments by userid.

• 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.

• thrako plots the number of AskMe answers per user - MeTa comment

[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
  • average number of comments to AskMe questions posted at that time (twice)
  • a graph of "Percentage of AskMe questions with no more than 10, 5, and 1 answers over time"

• Cortex's stats on MetaTalk thread closures

• Andy Baio has a bunch of interesting graphs at Waxy:
  • most active threads

[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
  • a list of most favorited users (also, on Music)
  • most favorited comments

• rakish_yet_centered posted posts with over 200 favorites.

• Pronoiac posted graphs of favorites vs comments for threads.

• tkolar listed the comments with the most favorites

[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:
  • graphs number of AskMe question by hour - MeTa comment
  • asks when do you post a question to get the most answers - MeTa comment
  • asks when do you post a question to get the most favorites - MeTa comment
  • graphs the date of final comments on the blue - MeTa comment

• 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

• BEIM graphs postid, userid, comments, favorites, & datetime against each other

• The Metafilter Data Playground by null terminated. No longer in service.