The mother of all BoingBoing content analyses

Xeni Jardin 9:40 am Mon Jan 8, 2007

Holy math porn, Batman! Jeff Clark has produced yet another series of insanely detailed statistical analyses of BoingBoing content from 2000-2006, and you can view them here:
Link.

Here are the subsections:

Boing Boing Analysis – Part 1 (Posts Over Time by Author)
Boing Boing Analysis – Part 2 (Posts Breakdown over Day of Week)
Boing Boing Analysis – Part 3 (Images/Post over time by Author)
Boing Boing Analysis – Part 4 (Outbound Links/Post and Acronym use by Author)

Boing Boing Analysis – Part 5 (Topic Hierarchy)
Boing Boing Analysis – Part 6 (Topic Emphasis by Author)
Boing Boing Analysis – Part 7 (Images/Post for Topics and Topic Share over Time)
Boing Boing Analysis – Part 8 (Incoming Links)

I spent the better part of my weekend wandering through though these and muttering "wow" to myself. Thanks so much, Jeff!

Previously on BB:

Extensive analysis of Boing Boing posting habits

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