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Visualizing the impact of US politics megaposts on the blue
The biggest change in the way that mefites participate on the blue in years has been the rise of US politics megathreads. We have had several discussions of the qualitative impact of them, but it occurred to me that it might be useful to dig into the infodump and see what quantitative picture might emerge. I think my findings are worth sharing - while a quantitative analysis on its own can't tell us whether the megathreads are a good thing or not, there are several negative trends regarding community engagement and participation that are happening in close concurrency with the rise of the megathreads. [more inside]
15 years of Metafilter (Blue) in graphics
Here is a collection of graphics about the evolution of user engagement (posting, commenting) on the Blue (data from the infodump, 15 June 2015). [more inside]
Metafilter Frequency Tables updated, now with 636 million words!
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!) [more inside]
Data Wankery Inside
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! [more inside]
Infodump update: files relocated, new postlength data
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. [more inside]
What's on your infodump wishlist?
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. [more inside]
Introducing the Metafilter Frequency Tables
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.) [more inside]
Infodump: Just gotta have the last word or are you a conversation killer?
Just gotta have the last word or are you a conversation killer? [more inside]
Mefi datafun
Infodump fun with the fabulous Fishbike! [more inside]
The ol' favoriting reacharound.
Some specific MeFi info-mashing about favorites I haven't seen. [more inside]
How can I view my favourites by person?
Is it possible to look at your own favourites in an info-dumpish way? [more inside]
Infodump updates: contact dates, comment length, metatalk closures, munging
The one where we talk about November Experiment stats
A thread for discussing November Experiment data, stats, graphs, and other datawankery. [more inside]
Infodump 2.0
The Metafilter Infodump is back, and moderately better than ever! Statistics nerds rejoice! [more inside]
need...more...data...
I'm assuming this got lost in the Great Server Disaster of 2009, but is the Infodump ever coming back?
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