Hey all...
Well you're most likely going to yell NERD really loud because of this one, but oh well
As promised, I created a script which called the first 6240 characters from
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/index.php evey 10 seconds. All of this data was logged into a database. In total, I have 1837 records. (That's right, I logged the spotlight 1837 times!!)
Now, what did I find?
Well.. I'm not really great at giving all this stat stuff.. but here what I can figure out
Well... I logged a total of 169 unique spotlight quotes. However, the spotlight list actually shows 171 spotlights. Hehe.. I found the first thing which causes quotes to be selected more often.
The most selected quote was:
Success is the indescribable feeling you get when you see something you worked so hard on in front of thousands of people. - SlamminSammy
Now, why did this quote come up a whopping 24 times?? Well look.. It has to duplicate entries. (Look on the first spotlight page) There is the first bug. I'm going to guess that another "top quote" also is double quoted. I couldn't find the second repeat quickly.. brandon can find it in a snap with a little query.
Well... some basic overall stats. The quote most called had 24 times. The least called quotes (with a 4-way tie) had 4.
The "avgerage" should have been 10.
Ok.. so I really don't know how to give stats for this stuff very well.. Could some little math genius make them?
The only other thing I will say is that, Jeff W (from his first post) said that my quote (Look at 71's 'walking'...) he thought came up more often than others. Well.. personally I don't think I see it too often. But.. Jeff might be right. In my "study" that quote came up 20 times. It was the third highest.
Ok... I've attached a zip file which contains two csv files. One is for the # of times the quote appeared and the quote. The other are the raw entries; Time and quote.
Thanks all,
Jack