The Results are In

and in 2007 Paul once again topped the list of people I talk to on aim. One advantage of keeping logs of every aim conversation I have is that I can pull out fun but meaningless statistics and blog about them.

The results from 2007

Rank Bytes Name 2006 Rank
1
4261221 Paul
1
2
2088617 Kelly
3
1782259 OSU Paul
7
4
950551 Josh
2
5
871658 Jed
10
6
682480 Beth
3
7
615125 Rob
8
8
294982 Matt
6
9
268387 George
11
10
247025 My Parents
12

Lets compare the 2007 results to the all time list:

Rank Bytes Name 2007 Rank
1
14142297 Paul
1
2
9390234 Beth
5
3
4807056 George
9
4
4350718 Josh
4
5
4167148 OSU Paul
3
6
2956684 Matt
8
7
2457418 Kelly
2
8
2282025 Christy
9
2067038 Jessica
10
1839941 My Parents
10

The Moral of this story is that Paul better watch out or least he lose his top spot in 2008. Although, Beth and Paul’s all time placements are not yet in jeopardy everyone else may need to take notice. These are the numbers for the last quarter of 2007:

Rank Bytes Name
1
1627836 Kelly
2
1131700 Paul
3
250167 Josh

The last time Paul didn’t take the top prize for a quarter of the year was Q2 (April – June) 2005:

Rank Bytes Name
1
843586 Josh
2
701362 George
3
640133 Paul

Anyways, hope you enjoyed the random charts and tables. Making all of this reminds me of the girl’s comment in frame 4 of xkcd 314. Oh and the bash script that grabs all the data (sorry for the bad formating):

match="2007-*"; for f in `ls /home/liryon/.purple/logs/aim/liryon`; do du -scb home/liryon/.purple/logs/aim/liryon/$f/$match | grep total | sed -e "s/total/$f/"; done 2> /dev/null | grep -v aolsystemmsg | sort -n -r | head -n 10

3 Responses to “The Results are In”

  1. Chris says:

    I am severely upset by these results. All the hours I have put into our AIM conversations and I don’t even make the list. Does this have anything to do with the fact that I haven’t been on AIM since June! DOES IT!?!?! DON’T YOU LIE TO ME!!!!!!!

  2. Liryon says:

    Why haven’t you been on AIM since June! Of course that has something to do with it. But all those hours did count for something; you are 14th on the all time list with 1277416 bytes. By the way, it’s official George talks ~3.7 times as much as you do. Not that we needed the numbers to figure that out.

  3. Chris says:

    I don’t know really. Since starting work I just never feel the desire to sign onto AIM. I check facebook all the time, though. George is definitely a “talker.” He is one of those where you could put the phone down and come back 35 minutes later and just pick up right where you left off. Don’t tell him I said that though. Lets hope he doesnt read your blog. DO YOU!?? GEORGE!!!