Swearing Analysis

[andrewducker]

Over on FB Joachim asked me a question about my link post tags, and how long it had been since there was a day without an OhForFucksSake tage. I grabbed my data from Pinboard, did a tiny bit of processing in Powershell, dropped the results into Excel, and produced this lovely graph:



And then had a quick check, and the answer is the 31st of July. Clearly a day of joy, which will be remembered for ever.

Comments

[doug]

This is brilliant, and reflects my perception of what's been going on both in terms of what tags you've been posting and also what's been happening in the world that influences your choice of tags.

I want to:
(a) salute your exploration of this interesting data, and
(b) extend sincere sympathy to you for the world being such that it warrants the increases.

That's the main things. But because I'm a geek about data I can't help myself wanting to dig further in to it. It strikes me that a pure count of offs (offses?) is potentially misleading, depending on what one is looking for. A measure of the ratio of offs to total links that month might be more indicative of whether there has been an increase in the proportion of rage-inducing links as opposed to an increase in links generally. Obviously, the strong suspicion has to be that it's the proportion that's increased. However, I'm not certain which effect contributes to the drop-off from the peak (I think Feb 2018?). I suspect the world (and the link-centric view of it) has not become any less outraging, but that does leave two clear candidates explanations. My feeling is that there have been fewer links posted since a Certain Major Event In Your Life earlier this year, but it's also possible that you have mellowed as a result and are less likely to add an offs tag than you were.

Oh, and the final thing I want to do - which is probably the most important, now I think about it - is to say thank you yet again for doing all this stuff. It's great and I really appreciate it.

[skington]

I came here to say “ratio rather than numbers please” as well, so I'll just second all of this and save time :-) .