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Alexander Chervov comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19404)

Alexander Chervov — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:29:24 -0700

@Anton Geraschenko Thank you very much for data and graphs (and unexpressably greatest thanks for the site as a whole :).
By the way start of MSE can be seen of activity here ?
It seems to me in summer activities here decrease which is natural.

Alex 'qubeat' comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19393)

Alex 'qubeat' — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:33:08 -0700

I used last version of the public database (in fact, it is XML, not SQL) in my chart. Seems closed posts are not included and so Q+A < Posts.
@François G. Dorais: Thanks! (but seems, SkyDrive does not provide normal URL)

François G. Dorais comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19392)

François G. Dorais — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:27:55 -0700

By the way, the public database dumps are available on http://dumps.mathoverflow.net/.

Alex, the syntax for inserting images is ![Alt Text](URL).

Alex 'qubeat' comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19391)

Alex 'qubeat' — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:09:24 -0700

Monthly rate of questions and answers for 30x30=900 days http://sdrv.ms/KDb5kU (sorry for the cloud, I am not sure, how to insert picture)

Anton Geraschenko comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19388)

Anton Geraschenko — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:40:14 -0700

Shouldn't we somehow account for increases in the MO population? There should be more people to view and upvote.

You might think so, but people don't vote that way. The higher the score of a post, the less likely it is to get another upvote.

Some traffic stats were generated on this meta thread. I don't have the chance to recompute those now, but at the time we were getting about 30 questions per day. MO is very close to 1000 days old (998 days old today, I think), and we've just passed 31,000 questions, so it seems like the question rate is fairly constant.

Here's a graph of weekly visits since the beginning (from google analytics):

Alexander Chervov comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19387)

Alexander Chervov — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:13:39 -0700

it was just a question, sorry forgot to put "?". But since you say that there is dump available it seems there is no such restriction from them.

Asaf Karagila comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19386)

Asaf Karagila — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:52:11 -0700

Well, the inability of yourself to reach this data does not imply that the moderators wish to keep it hidden somewhere.

Alexander Chervov comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19385)

Alexander Chervov — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:55:45 -0700

Unfortunately I am not so strong in modern programming "SQL dumps" make me in horror:)

Asaf Karagila comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19384)

Asaf Karagila — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:38:45 -0700

There are public SQL dumps that you can download and analyze for these answers. I'm not sure when is the next public dump going to be out. if Anton is busy I imagine it may take a while.

Alexander Chervov comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19383)

Alexander Chervov — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:26:54 -0700

Yes probably should divide by the total post number per month.

By the way post/per month is growing ? (Well may be moderators do not want to disclose such statistics ? If so I do not insist).

Michael Greinecker comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19382)

Michael Greinecker — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:12:48 -0700

Shouldn't we somehow account for increases in the MO population? There should be more people to view and upvote.

Alexander Chervov comments on ""measuring" the "excitement"" (19381)

Alexander Chervov — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:25:45 -0700

Gil Kalai asked
4) Is there a sense of decreased excitement in MO?

May be "excitement" can be measured by the number of "popular" posts in each month ?
"Popular" something like many views/answers/upvotes - like those on the top of the
http://mathoverflow.net/?tab=month
Do we have such statistics ?