Did anybody ever do an analysis on what proportion of Ask questions get answered in some way with a suggestion to get therapy?
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posted by curuinor
on Feb 2, 2013 -
54 comments
I recently got my hands on a copy of Tableau Desktop. It's supposed to be a business intelligence app, but nevermind that. The first thing I did was hook it up to the infodump files!
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posted by aheckler
on Dec 16, 2012 -
68 comments
Hi MeFites! This is the discussion thread for the
2012 MetaFilter Pronunciation Survey, available for 5 days to all logged-in site users. Even if you already took the 2010 survey, it'd be valuable to have you do it again. Additionally, this time around all survey participants will have the option to have a word frequency table of their MetaFilter posting history generated and emailed to them.
If you would like to take the 2012 survey, I would ask that you please do so BEFORE you read or participate in the discussion here (as well as before you view the previous MetaTalk thread about the 2010 survey). This is to help ensure that your responses to these survey questions are entirely your own decisions and are not influenced by the opinions of those participating in this thread. If you have already taken the 2012 survey or are not interested in taking the survey but would like to discuss it, please go ahead and do so here.
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posted by iamkimiam
on Aug 22, 2012 -
306 comments
Hi Everybody! I'm trying to come up with a "MeFi glossary of terms / phrases / behaviors" to include in my PhD dissertation about linguistics and MetaFilter. If you could help me with this, that would be fantastic. I'm looking to create a list of the types of things that say to you (or to others) "Oh, that's so MetaFilter!" or "That sounds like something a MeFite would say." This could be anything from the use of a single character to a phrase or meme, to a way of doing things here. If you can think of something to add, please share it in the comments. Thanks!
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posted by iamkimiam
on Feb 29, 2012 -
331 comments
It's been a while since we
discussed the possibility of a metafilter API. Is there any news on this front? Is it worth reconsidering?
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posted by kuatto
on Jul 28, 2011 -
56 comments
I like to know things. I like to know things about people. I especially like to know things about people who I interact with online. It bums me right out that it seems so few newer members take the time, or wish to, fill out anything in their profile. Is there any way to encourage this?
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posted by FlamingBore
on Dec 10, 2010 -
101 comments
Has anyone done any interesting analysis of metafilter data? I'd like to see average posts/day, average comments/post over time, for starters. But I bet there are many more interesting/pointless questions to be answered beyond that.
posted by flotson
on Mar 5, 2009 -
68 comments
Is there any data on AskMe responses?
This post generated a remarkable 115 (and counting) replies. What's the record?
posted by Neiltupper
on May 26, 2008 -
32 comments
Is there an alphabetical list of MeFi usernames anywhere? I have a vague recollection of a username I'm trying to recall and I know what letter it started with, but I'm stuck there. This wouldn't be hard to compile, it would just take a numerical increment and a simple web scraper. Just wondering if anyone's ever done it. Thanks!
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posted by scarabic
on Jan 11, 2008 -
55 comments
Over the past couple of days when I access MetaFilter (via XP Professional and I.E. 7.0.5730.13) the
Internet Explorer Information Bar has 'popped-up' with a security warning: "This website wants to run the following add-on: 'Microsoft Data Access - Remote Data Services Dat...'"
Having done a
Google search, it appears that in the past two-weeks visitors to other websites have been getting the same warning.
I have not allowed/given access to the pop-up warning.
Any ideas as to what's up?
posted by ericb
on Dec 30, 2007 -
16 comments
Fantasy feature: hover over "x users marked this as a favorite" and see the names of the people who did the favorite marking. Whaddaya think?
posted by serazin
on Jun 13, 2007 -
53 comments
Hello! I'm addicted to MetaFilter Music. One thing I'd like to encourage is well-fleshed ID3 data. Some of the songs I've downloaded simply say things like "Track 4" and then I can't figure out who the hell provided me with the wonderful ear-candy. Thanks to everyone for posting their tunes!
posted by sciurus
on Jul 12, 2006 -
13 comments
A tiny, tiny pony...is it easy to find out what the average number of votes/feedback per Project is, for all time, and then just for this year? Thx! This is just a one-time thing, no wish for a full feature request.
posted by Kickstart70
on Jun 6, 2006 -
13 comments
"Document contains no data". I know this has been mentioned recently but I couldn't find the link. It's happening pretty frequently. Is is just me? Should I just shut up and be patient?
posted by snsranch
on Nov 1, 2005 -
4 comments
Just how
international are we?
It seems to me all the other well-known and popular American and European community weblogs and websites are far more parochial and North America-centred than
MetaFilter. Not so with us. This makes, I think, all the
difference. We have (off the top of my head and as far as I know) members from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, France, Holland, india, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, The Philippines, Portugal, Scotland, Wales, Spain...and who knows what other countries?
So just how widely cast is the MetaFilter users' web?[
Lurkers: Please break your vow of silence, just this once, if you possibly can!] Me, I suspect it spans the whole beautiful Planet...
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Jul 14, 2002 -
64 comments
In this posting, user dhartung mentions that there are dozens of threads that he doesn't even read, after user RobertLoch asks if it's necessary to keep posting on the same old topics. Myself, I probably read around 25% of the total threads, and click on maybe 35% of the links offered-- even if a topic has been done to death it doesn't really affect me, as I just skip it. How about you? What percentage of threads do you read?
posted by cell divide
on Mar 4, 2002 -
26 comments
Considering all the hub-bub we keep getting about vets VS oldies, signal-to-noise, volume posters, etc, I just finished wasting a huge volume of time crunching the may stats based on individual posters - all 310 of 'em. For whatever it's worth, take a look at what the numbers say about who's posting what and how successfully. info inside
posted by Perigee
on Jun 3, 2001 -
15 comments
Anyone have ideas on how to plot
zipcode data? I haven't found anything free or near free on
ESRI's site or at any of the ColdFusion code exchanges. Are there any opensource simple GIS programs? I could have sworn there was a mapping component to ArsDigita's ACS some group was working on. Anything in PHP? Perl?
I'm looking for something that can spit out a simple map of the US with little dots where the zip code data shows up.
posted by mathowie
on May 15, 2001 -
21 comments
So, anyone want to venture a guess as to when the number of registered users will surpass the number of threads?
posted by alan
on Apr 20, 2001 -
6 comments
I wanted to see how Metafilter has grown since its launch, so I crawled the archives for thread/comment totals for every day since July 1999. Then, I wrote a script to
plot all the data in line graphs and tables. Click on the links to drill down.
It's interesting to see how quickly the commenting community have grown. At this rate, Matt will have to build thread-within-thread support to handle the sheer number of comments.
posted by waxpancake
on Jan 12, 2001 -
16 comments
Would it be feasible to let us munge our cookie/user data? Specifically, the last date/time visited? It'd be something of a work-around for when the front page refreshes during topical views, and there's no indication of what threads contain new data.
I tried editing the cookie directly, but all those percentages confused me. :-)
posted by cCranium
on Nov 17, 2000 -
7 comments
