Fun With Graphs
Welcome to the July 2019 version of "Fun With Graphs". We'll see some graphs of things other than the usual semi-annual and weekly posts.
There were more "Fun With Graphs" posts in the January 2019 thread, because it was the first time I'd presented the graphs and I was still exploring which ones worked and which ones didn't. There may be fewer such posts this time, depending on what looks fun and feasible.
Top 10 Changes in Rank: Details
In the Top 10,
@Scepticalscribe moved past
@Applejuiced, and
@Doctor Q moved past
@GoCubsGo. These graphs show their post counts in weekly detail.
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A Race Into the Top 10
In January 2019, the two MacRumors users
@Apple fanboy and
@Relentless Power were in a close race to break into the Top 10. By July, only
@Apple fanboy had made it there.
I've used
@Eidorian at #10 as a proxy for breaking into the Top 10, with
@mkrishnan (inactive) at #9. I've also included
@mad jew (inactive) at #8, as a historical benchmark, and as the next benchmark for Apple fanboy to pass.
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Two Thousand Likes and a Like
When post-count data is collected for MR users, their Likes counts have also been collected, when possible. Until now, that data has only been presented in tables, not graphs. The graph below shows the growth in weekly Likes counts for users who've received 2000 or more likes in the last 6 months.
You'll see a few users who don't appear in other graphs, like
@samcraig and
@keysofanxiety. There can be different reasons for this, such as posting mainly in an uncounted forum, or by making posts that often get multiple Likes.
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More Fun
The 2 graphs below show my own weekly post and Likes counts, along with a few other members whose posts I enjoy reading in the Community forum:
@AngerDanger,
@Gutwrench, and
@LizKat.
The dates in these graphs start in late February instead of early January because I forgot to add these members to the data-collection task until later.
The graphs have different ordering and colors, because Likes can easily exceed post count, as demonstrated by AngerDanger's results. Any post can have multiple Likes, even posts that are in uncounted forums.
The only graph lines that are the same in both cases are mine: I'm the bottom orange line. I clearly need to up my game.
The Likes count for AngerDanger tops out above 2000. This may cause you to wonder why he doesn't appear in the above Likes graph for users with 2000+ Likes. The answer to that is that he wasn't in the list of users on 01 Jan 2019, so there isn't a full 6-month span of data like the other users. This causes the script that produces Table 1 to omit his 6-month Likes counts.
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Posts per Week
The above graphs that show weekly post growth are cumulative. That is, each line represents the cumulative growth of a user's post count relative to their post count at the start of the overall interval.
In this graph, we look at the number of posts per week. This grgaph will make changes from week to week more obvious. For example, if someone makes exactly 20 posts every week, then their line in this graph would be flat at a level of 20. In the post growth cumulative graph, their line would rise at a constant upward slope of 20 units per week. If they then drop to 18 posts per week, their posts-per-week line would drop by 2 units, a step that would easily be visible, while their growth line would show only a slight flattening.
I posted similar graphs in Jan 2019, but they had more users per graph, and were difficult to read. Here, I've manually chosen a few members to graph:
@Scepticalscribe - for having a prolific post rate
@Shirasaki - for the accelerating growth in May and early June
@Relentless Power - for almost making it into the Top 10
@Doctor Q - for the only post-rate increase in the Top 10
@C DM - for having a roller-coaster growth line in the Weekly Post Growth graphs
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