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We created a simple to read list to get an overview of new names: http://popodeus.com/statistics/names/new/
If you think the list could be better, you should comment and tell us what you think of it. We’ll be updating that page with some more neat things real soon.
Today there was a funny name that stuck out from the others:
This is most likely still within the game rules, but is borderline stupid looking. Have you found any funny names you think should be mentioned? Let’s catch them all!
We’re reaching end of July and Popmundo forum threads are at around 1,670,xxx. That is, 1.67 millions and counting up.
Popodeus forum search only contains a small fraction of all the threads created daily inside Popmundo. The main reason for this is our conservative indexing speed and one access node (server). Current status of indexed threads from 1,000,000 up to 1,670,xxx looks like this:
As you can see, there’s much more red than white or green. And we have to fix that! So we’re going to take a different approach to this.
I will soon start a coordinated project hopefully with at least 10 volunteers so we can get most of the missing threads into the forum index. If you’re interested, drop me a mail at alanas.anikonis@popodeus.com and I’ll send more details when things are ready. Please state in your mail who your Popmundo character is and what forums you are subscribed to, and if you would not mind subscribing to forums that you don’t usually read. After indexing is done, you can of course unsubscribe. The indexing will most likely be done via your web browser and a Greasemonkey script, so make sure you have Firefox 3.5 or later installed. We can probably get started on this sometime in August, so it’s no rush, I have a few security issues to take care of first.
Don’t hesitate. There’s not much work involved on your part. The indexing is mostly automated and you only have to leave on your computer and either watch it happen or go watch some TV :D
More forum statistics coming soon!
Don’t miss out the new simple helper tool we’ve added to Popodeus.
http://popodeus.com/statistics/artist/
We added the Tour Banner helper, so you can easily pull a list of any artist’s tour schedule.
Then you can copy-paste this text into a Google Spreadsheet or maybe Photoshop, if you plan on making a tour banner for your artist.
Try it out and send us feedback!
Later today we will launch a daily list of name changes that happen daily.
Your name is tracked by Popodeus, be sure of it. And if other players pay enough attention, we will find the offensive names quicker.
To be updated….
On the Crew page in Popmundo http://www.popmundo.com/Common/Crew.asp there are numbers on how many people use a certain language as their primary language.
Running a simple script I made, which summarizes all numbers and calculates percentages, the page looks like this:
(Sum is 229,071 users)
We can most certainly assume that many pick either US or UK English as their game interface language, even if it’s not their mother tongue (I always play the game in US English myself).
And we can most certainly assume that nobody selects Turkish unless they actually speak the language.
So to see Turkish alone is 49%, we can be pretty sure that over 50% of the players speak and know Turkish… (if we include people who don’t pick Turkish even if they could).
Even Brazilian Portuguese only reaches a feeble 16.3% of the user base, and it’s supposed to be the second biggest language in the game.
So in case anyone ever wonders: Turkish IS the main / dominant language in the game. Accept it :)
Top 10 languages are:
112,200 Türkçe 48.98%
37,365 Português, Brasil 16.31%
17,087 Español 7.46%
13,504 US English 5.9%
6,761 Lietuvių 2.95%
6,138 Polski 2.68%
6,075 Italiano 2.65%
3,852 Chinese, Singapore 1.68%
3,680 Eesti 1.61%
3,613 Suomi 1.58%
Tags: Statistics
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year! Time to make a few promises for 2010.
Currently I’m on a vinter vacation and haven’t been home since New Year’s Eve, so there hasn’t been much happening the past week (or actually two…)
So, what will Popodeus be up to in 2010?
I will release new stuff as soon as I get back home later this week.
I was working on some old and new numbers again and decided to create a few pretty graphs for everyone. After all, number and graphs are always a joy to stare at! ;)
First up is a an updated graph of something I first posted in Trendy Charts. I never was happy with how the graph looked in the first place. Google completely ignored the date stamp, thus the graph was drawn in improper scaling. I don’t like to produce data that looks false.
Here’s a new one created with proper tools:
If you ask me, it sure ain’t a pretty view. Why did I ever choose purple in the first place? Oh, and that quick decline of players is awful too.
Second graph is data from last 19 days, plotting the number of logged in users that can be expected during day and night. Since central Europe dominates, the game is at its slowest during 5-7am and the busiest hours are during 17-22 (6-10pm) which really doesn’t come as a surprise. If East Asians and Americans were in greater numbers, the line would be much flatter.
All times in CET.
Here’s the same data broken down into 3 hour intervals and split into weekdays:
What can be seen from this is that Thursday has been a really busy day during the last 19 days. People also like to stay up late on Fridays to play Popo.
Final graph is the raw data this information was based on:
All of these graph are continually updated on Popodeus website in our statistics page. Make sure to visit it often!
Back in Coverage of forum-index I posted (a sort of) scatter plot for my forum database index. Since then I’ve pulled in lots more forum posts.
This plot covers forum posts id 1,200,000 to 1,450,000. Black spots are unindexed so far. Green spots are posted in Turkish forums, white ones are all other languages. If you look carefully, some few orange and blue spots are Dutch and Finnish respectively.
That’s it for now.
I hadn’t run my letter frequency analyzer on all Popmundo names in a while now, which I do from time to time in order to find those odd (or just plain broken and illegal) names.
Special letters usually stick out like a sore thumb when you break down every name into separate letters and count each how many times they appear. For a human, doing this type of counting by hand would be insane.
| Ė | 1 | ľ | 1 | し | 1 | ご | 1 | さ | 1 | ? | 1 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| М | 1 | Ū | 1 | · | 1 | Þ | 1 | ら | 1 | ゆ | 1 | ||||||
| で | 2 | あ | 2 | け | 2 | じ | 2 | ん | 2 | ð | 2 | ||||||
| Ą | 3 | き | 3 | ろ | 3 | þ | 5 | ù | 5 | ひ | 6 | ||||||
| À | 6 | ű | 7 | Ő | 8 | œ | 10 | Ţ | 10 | ì | 10 | ||||||
| à | 19 | . | 20 | , | 20 | Ć | 23 | Õ | 25 | Ø | 26 | ||||||
| Ó | 31 | Ä | 34 | Ż | 35 | Ś | 37 | Â | 39 | ò | 45 | ||||||
| ő | 47 | Ú | 47 | ß | 59 | ’ | 67 | ź | 67 | đ | 71 | ||||||
| Đ | 73 | ´ | 76 | æ | 83 | Í | 89 | Ł | 93 | ń | 98 | ||||||
| ï | 113 | Ž | 120 | ą | 126 | ę | 127 | Å | 127 | ţ | 135 | ||||||
| ż | 137 | ś | 144 | õ | 162 | û | 201 | Š | 206 | Č | 210 | ||||||
| ë | 249 | É | 258 | å | 314 | ø | 358 | ê | 381 | ž | 402 | ||||||
| ô | 424 | ă | 431 | î | 449 | è | 581 | Á | 724 | ñ | 833 | ||||||
| ‘ | 878 | š | 903 | ł | 916 | Ü | 924 | ū | 948 | â | 970 | ||||||
| ú | 982 | č | 1113 | ã | 1184 | Q | 1543 | ć | 1588 | X | 1662 | ||||||
| ä | 1697 | q | 2508 | ó | 3118 | - | 3166 | U | 3577 | Ş | 3891 | ||||||
| x | 4277 | İ | 4380 | Ç | 4601 | ė | 4704 | á | 5075 | í | 5430 | ||||||
| Ö | 5609 | Z | 6281 | ö | 6459 | é | 7278 | W | 8287 | I | 8466 | ||||||
| j | 8493 | w | 9889 | ç | 10127 | O | 10899 | ğ | 11410 | V | 11534 | ||||||
| Y | 11968 | ş | 13519 | f | 15612 | N | 16635 | F | 17522 | H | 21571 | ||||||
| P | 22442 | J | 22456 | R | 23374 | ü | 23900 | T | 24351 | p | 24606 | ||||||
| ı | 25901 | L | 25979 | E | 26900 | D | 28964 | K | 31164 | G | 32232 | ||||||
| b | 33843 | C | 36470 | v | 38267 | B | 40795 | z | 42677 | g | 46002 | ||||||
| S | 48279 | M | 48344 | A | 59444 | h | 62611 | y | 63447 | c | 63622 | ||||||
| k | 67516 | m | 73191 | d | 88623 | u | 112437 | t | 126844 | s | 127070 | ||||||
| o | 182954 | l | 204371 | r | 257355 | i | 259978 | n | 262577 | 322280 | |||||||
| e | 328487 | a | 442350 |
I wanted a quick visual of how much of the forum I have indexed… The current thread id maximum is at around 1.42 millions, and I only have 33k threads in my database. Lots of empty space in there.. ugh. I can do better, I promise!
This is my first visualization, blue dot is an indexed thread. Top left corner is id zero, and it grows to the right, 1000 pixels/threads to the right. So the 20th line represents threadids 20,000-20,999. First pixel on line 1400 is threadid 1,400,000-1,400,999 etc. Click on image for full size view.
Later I might add color to show which thread is in Turkish, English, Spanish etc. unless I make a traditional pie chart or something.
As asked in the previous blog entry, I’m posting some of the most commonly used words (terms, as Lucene calls them) used in the Popmundo forums.
Extracting the top terms is quite simple, but getting relevant data, well… this is how it looks like:
141,846 i
108,782 de
87,742 you
84,692 me
80,864 que
71,235 la
59,152 en
… ok, so number is how many times it occurs (in 646k entries). Hardly any interesting details in the top most common terms.
I shouldn’t even index those words in the first place, they’re called “stop words”, and removing them from the search database would make it much smaller. (Actually I started filtering out stop words not too long ago, so searching for them should not be possible for posts indexed in the last month or so, unless I made a configuration mistake)
Scrolling down in the list these words pop up:
vip, solo, band, rock, idea, skills, show, thread, tour, basic, money, ceo, zombie, club… (I didn’t pick any words that I didn’t understand, in Spanish, Turkish etc.)
Well, hardly anything surprising there. Zombie is mentioned 5,750 times.
Full list of 400 most common terms: popmundo_forum_top_terms_2009.txt
