Very interesting stats., and it's hat's off to Tom Chiverton and Tracy Spratt. Thank you to them.
How about a star burst to show which topics led to the most subsequent activity? John Doug McCune wrote: > > > Seems to be back up, god I hate servers, but I guess that's why I do > front-end development. > > BTW, I'm going to be investigating getting a full dataset of the Adobe > Flex forums too and will likely do some similar visualizations once I > figure out how to get the data. Looks like the forum software Adobe > uses (from Jive) has webservice access and I should be able to write > something to pull all the data. If anyone has any experience with > this, drop me a line. > > Doug > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Doug McCune <d...@dougmccune.com > <mailto:d...@dougmccune.com>> wrote: > > And of course instantly my server decides to go down. I'm aware, > working on it. Sorry for the "check this out, oh wait, server > crashed" :P > > Doug > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM, primo411 <primo...@gmail.com > <mailto:primo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Wow ! The UI looks really nice :) > > 2009/11/3 Doug McCune <d...@dougmccune.com > <mailto:d...@dougmccune.com>> > > > > Hey guys, > > Last night I put together a post that details some of the > stats for this list: > > http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/11/03/flexcoders-mailing-list-stats-pretty-graphs-full-dataset/ > > The post also contains a download of the entire archive of > all flexcoders messages (up through last night). The file > is a CSV file and contains the sender name, subject, and > date of every message ever posted to the list. It contains > 148,826 posts. I also have the full database archive (it's > in MS Access format) that contains all the full-text of > the messages, but that file is 1.5 gigs so I'm not posting > it for download, but if someone has some ideas about what > to do with it I can probably get it to you somehow. > > I know we had a long discussion back a long time ago about > whether the list was declining in traffic, whether it > should be split up, yadda yadda. I finally got around to > getting a really good complete dataset to play with. Hope > you enjoy the post and let me (and the rest of us on the > list) know if you do anything cool with the data yourself. > > Doug > > > > > > >
