By the Numbers: The del.icio.us/popular/toread Count

As previously discussed, many of the popular links on del.icio.us tagged toread contained numbers in the titles. Now this can be quantified:

The sparkline above (courtesy Joe Gregorio’s sparklines service) shows the trend of the sum of numbers found in the titles of links in the del.icio.us/popular/toread feed over the last 14 days. (From what I can tell, the popular lists are recalculated about every 4 hours, so each bar represents one sample from each four hour period.) The sum is calculated by a Ruby script that periodically grabs the RSS feed for the popular/toread tag, taking any representation of a number from a title in the feed (e.g.,10, Ten, 101, 2001) and adding it to the total.

The numbers for the last two weeks:

Min: 89.5
Max: 2324.5
Mean: 697.47
Mode: 380
Median: 379


Coming soon…a way you can make a game out of this.