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Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 7:07 pm
by Мастер
No, not astronomy related.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 5:15 pm
by Мастер
No takers?

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 6:02 pm
by Lance
Economic?

Environmental?

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 7:35 pm
by Мастер
Lance wrote:Economic?

Environmental?


I would not put it in either of those two categories.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 8:01 pm
by Arneb
To me, the form of the "curve" would suggest a time-dpenedent quantitiy: Somthing that has low numbers for a long time, with ups and down, sometimes shrinking to zero, and then exploding onto the scene at the end. But the numbers on the x-axis don't suggest time as the independent variable.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 8:43 pm
by Мастер
Arneb wrote:To me, the form of the "curve" would suggest a time-dpenedent quantitiy: Somthing that has low numbers for a long time, with ups and down, sometimes shrinking to zero, and then exploding onto the scene at the end. But the numbers on the x-axis don't suggest time as the independent variable.


The numbers on the x-axis are time. "1" is the first unit of time, "2" is the second, "125" is the 125th.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 8:45 pm
by Мастер
For what it's worth, I created the graph myself from the source data. It may not be quite as slick as it would be if it were pulled from Der Spiegel.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:45 pm
by Lance
Copying it here so we don't have to go back a page to see it.

Image

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:47 pm
by Lance
Likelihood your car will be repossessed after being X days late on your payment?

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:26 pm
by Мастер
Lance wrote:Likelihood your car will be repossessed after being X days late on your payment?


No, nothing like that.

The first observation is March 2007.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:53 pm
by g-one
Is the y-axis tweets?

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:12 am
by Lance
g-one wrote:Is the y-axis tweets?

lol, good one!

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:14 am
by Мастер
g-one wrote:Is the y-axis tweets?


Not exactly tweets.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:48 am
by Lance
Are the time units months?

ETA:
Lies told by Donald Trump?

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 3:12 am
by Мастер
Lance wrote:Are the time units months?


Yes, they are. And for what it is worth, the months begin and end in the time zone where I am located most of the time (UTC+8). If I did the graph according to your time zone, it would probably change, but not very much.

Lance wrote:ETA:
Lies told by Donald Trump?


If you look carefully, you will notice that some of the observations are zero - so what do you think?

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:06 am
by Lance
Мастер wrote:
Lance wrote:ETA:
Lies told by Donald Trump?

If you look carefully, you will notice that some of the observations are zero - so what do you think?

Yeah, okay. That can't be it.

Anything to do with Trump though?

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 5:16 am
by Мастер
Lance wrote:Anything to do with Trump though?


No, this is not Trump-related at all.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:17 am
by Heid the Ba
Posts in the 1,000,000 countdown?

*goes and checks start date of thread*
Posts in the 1,000,000 countdown thread.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 11:07 am
by Мастер
Heid the Ba' wrote:Posts in the 1,000,000 countdown?

*goes and checks start date of thread*
Posts in the 1,000,000 countdown thread.


:=D:

That was faster than I expected!

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:16 pm
by Arneb
Oooooh, nice one!

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:59 pm
by Lance
There were months with zero?!?

(Yes, very nice!)

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:35 pm
by Мастер
Lance wrote:There were months with zero?!?


Sometimes several in a row.

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 4:31 pm
by g-one
Well done!

On a side note, I noticed the flag portion of the portal page (visits by nation) and was wondering how much it was influenced by that particular thread (and the "up your post count" thread).
Lance, do you know what the flag counter actually counts? Would hits by bots even count?

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 9:19 pm
by Arneb
Well, since Heid didn't post a new graph, I can't resist the opportunity.

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DSC00706.JPG

Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!

PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 9:41 pm
by Lance
Stars? A meteor in the first one? Or maybe a plane?