We have clouds for the top 150 tags posted to
Mefi,
Music,
Meta,
Jobs,
IRL and
Ask. We can see the top ten tags we've used listed on user profiles. Would it be possible to view all tags (or a greater subset than 'top ten') for individual users, either in a list or cloud form?
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posted by zarq
on Jan 23, 2013 -
15 comments
It's been over a year since we first made the
Metafilter Frequency Tables available, and now they're updated with word frequency information for all of 2011 and 2012 as well, bringing the total number of words up to six hundred and thirty-six million. Gosh! (Is a word we've collectively used 5,707 times since 1999!)
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posted by cortex
on Jan 14, 2013 -
99 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
Infodump update! 1. We've relocated the data files for the Infodump to the mefi.us file server, to better manage load with large file transfers. If you retrieve Infodump files automatically, note the change and update your process accordingly. 2. New data files: postlengths for Mefi, Askme, Meta and Music.
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posted by cortex
on Jan 30, 2012 -
35 comments
Has site commenting become less frequent? It seems like threads are shorter on average these days, especially in the last few months. Is this due to the loss of a few prolific people?
posted by desjardins
on Oct 25, 2011 -
112 comments
I'm a geek in need of a spare-time project. I love metafilter, and numbers can make me kinda giddy at times, so the infodump sounds like a great place to start. Plus, this
pony reminded me that I've been meaning to do something for a while. I just lack ideas.
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posted by cgg
on Apr 14, 2011 -
135 comments
Has anyone ever looked at which posts/comments have been most favorited by men, and which by women?
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posted by Ashley801
on Mar 3, 2011 -
154 comments
The perfect gift for the computational linguist in your life:
Metafilter Frequency Tables! Finally you can know definitively how many times words such as "metafilter", "fucknozzle", or "mctootypoots" have been used on the site. (A: 127,484 times, 28 times, and once.)
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posted by cortex
on Jan 4, 2011 -
59 comments
It might be helpful to subtly color a mod's user name differently from other user names, especially in MetaTalk. I occasionally click into a long thread and wonder if a mod has weighed in, and find it hard to scan for that information. I imagine it would also be very helpful for new users to know who the moderators are. Potential downside: ordinary commentary & thread contributions may appear more weighty and official than you actual want them to. Your thoughts?
posted by judith
on Aug 27, 2010 -
105 comments
What thread has the highest T number, where T is 'number of favorites given to comments' divided by 'number of comments'?
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posted by dirtdirt
on Dec 28, 2009 -
64 comments
I'm assuming this got lost in the Great Server Disaster of 2009, but is the
Infodump ever coming back?
posted by desjardins
on Feb 17, 2009 -
24 comments
So I was reading
this, and thought it would make an interesting visualization for MeFi statistics. Pretty pictures inside.
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posted by Galvatron
on Aug 3, 2008 -
54 comments
Here are two charts about metafilter.
Posts and user numbers and
comments and user numbers. Each dot represents a post (or comment), with the post number and number of the user who posted (or commented) as the xy data. I don't remember what prompted me to make these (some metatalk thread, I'm sure), but I found them again on my hard drive and thought someone else might find them interesting (I brought them back up to date, too). There are half a dozen interesting little milestones that show up in the graphs, more than I could see probably.
posted by Lirp
on Jun 22, 2006 -
64 comments
