Tag: statistics
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A brief interlude
I decided to take a count of how many pages the last nearly 9 years of Playboy magazines have been. Makes for an interesting chart: I think it’s interesting to see it declining over time (the black line is a linear trendline). If I’d had more time, interest, or data, I’d try to correlate to…
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Random Stat of the Day
Like Jeremyah, I’m a big fan of random personal statistics. Here’s one for today: number of Amazon purchases I’ve made over time. First Amazon purchase for me? September 17, 1999. (ps: does this graph remind anyone else of an obscene hand gesture?)
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Feature Request: RSS Reader that supports an April Fools mode
I really wish my RSS reader supported an April Fools mode – it would basically take any post that was posted on April 1 and mark it immediately read or trash it, so I wouldn’t have to bother. Side note, I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5 as of last night, and the first thing I noticed…