Glanced at my schedule and realized I had no time to build another spreadsheet, so here goes!
- I am not an expert. I do have a spattering of Stats knowledge, but this is pretty much scissors-and-construction-paper with a side of math. Even the colors may hurt your eyes, alas. /disclaimer
- This visualization was chosen because it sums up the
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This is also daunting as hell. I can't believe anyone can actually *run* a challenge this huge. (ie, the Admins are made of AWESOME!)
I think I can better understand why they want to move the deadline back from midnight, next year. That last 24 hours of uploads would scare the bejeezus out of me...
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The thing is, if we can't objectively answer queries like "How is Yuletide different from other challenges?" then it's a short hop to making it harder to *plan* for Yuletide. Unless we've already done Yuletide before. Which doesn't help much. I figured, better to weigh the elephant than describe it.
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I *would* be interested to see something similar for other challenges. I pulled the "half will wait til the last day" estimate completely out of thin air, but I assume that there has to be more data out there. How *could* we get data for other challenges?
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Now, now. Timezones. ^_^
How *could* we get data for other challenges?
You can't, unless they're running astolat's shiny toys. No counter available to the uploaders + no script keeping track of the order of posting = no data.
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I am now, rather inappropriately, picturing a Yuletide Seder.
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Truly though -- that meta did pop up.
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