Out of curiosity I made a plot of the number of posts to D newsgroups over
time. It's more dynamic than I thought:
http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/dnews.html
I included a zip file of all the data used to make the plot and it has
enough structure to allow for lots more analysis if anyone cares to poke
around.

-Ben

ps the whole analysis was done in MATLAB - naturally :-)

It'd be interesting, also, to do analysis of each past year to determine, statistically, which parts of the year tend to be post "lulls" and which are the most active.  If I'm reading the graph correctly, mid 2004 (summer 2004) had more posts than the spring or fall- not what I suspected.

-John Demme

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:17:39 -0400, Ben Hinkle wrote:

> Out of curiosity I made a plot of the number of posts to D newsgroups over
> time. It's more dynamic than I thought:
> http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/dnews.html
> I included a zip file of all the data used to make the plot and it has
> enough structure to allow for lots more analysis if anyone cares to poke
> around.
> 
> -Ben
> 
> ps the whole analysis was done in MATLAB - naturally :-)

That /is/ interesting. I think some of us had probably noted the lull pattern during autumn and winter, but I'd no idea it was so pronounced.

Nice one, Ben.

"Ben Hinkle" <ben.hinkle@gmail.com> wrote in message news:de7vkl$1lr2$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Out of curiosity I made a plot of the number of posts to D newsgroups over
> time. It's more dynamic than I thought:
> http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/dnews.html
> I included a zip file of all the data used to make the plot and it has
> enough structure to allow for lots more analysis if anyone cares to poke
> around.
>
> -Ben
>
> ps the whole analysis was done in MATLAB - naturally :-)
>
>