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    <title>MaplePrimes - comments on Post, membership stats</title>
    <link>http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41325-Membership-Stats</link>
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    <description>The latest comments added to the Post, membership stats</description>
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      <title>Actual stats</title>
      <link>http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41325-Membership-Stats?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:membership stats:Comments#comment76938</link>
      <itunes:summary>There are currently 4758 people who have either registered for a MaplePrimes account, or who have logged into MaplePrimes using their Maplesoft.com membership information.

At the time of this posting, 1002 different users have posted somewhere on the site.


&lt;p&gt;____&lt;br/&gt;
William Spaetzel&lt;br/&gt;
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>
      <description>The latest comments added to the Post, membership stats</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 17:40:28 Z</pubDate>
      <itunes:author>Will</itunes:author>
      <author>Will</author>
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      <title>Actual data?</title>
      <link>http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41325-Membership-Stats?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:membership stats:Comments#comment85509</link>
      <itunes:summary>Is there any way to get at the actual data -- I mean posts or Ranking by id?  I think this data set would make an interesting one to study via Maple's own facilities, especially the new Statistics package.  It would be interesting to do some data fitting (see what distribution the data seems to fit, what parameters, etc).  Actually, releasing data snapshots every quarter might be nice, to see the time evolution too.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 18:35:39 Z</pubDate>
      <itunes:author>JacquesC</itunes:author>
      <author>JacquesC</author>
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      <title>Data</title>
      <link>http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41325-Membership-Stats?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:membership stats:Comments#comment91454</link>
      <itunes:summary>Here is a CSV file that contains all of the posting IDs, user ID and date posted

&lt;a href='http://www.mapleprimes.com/files/1_statistics.csv'&gt;Download 1_statistics.csv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mapleprimes.com/viewfile/1580'&gt;View file details&lt;/a&gt;

I have no problems posting this since it would have been possible for you to scrape this data from the website anyhow. I am interested to see what sort of statistics you can get from this data.


&lt;p&gt;____&lt;br/&gt;
William Spaetzel&lt;br/&gt;
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 19:07:41 Z</pubDate>
      <itunes:author>Will</itunes:author>
      <author>Will</author>
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      <title>interpretation of posting data</title>
      <link>http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41325-Membership-Stats?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:membership stats:Comments#comment76935</link>
      <itunes:summary>What is the meaning of "posting ID" and how do we correlate a user ID with a name (or vice-versa)?  What posts are included?  I notice that the user with the greatest number of posts has 128 (from the csv file), which is considerably less than total number of posts by you (Will) or any of the other top posters.  </itunes:summary>
      <description>The latest comments added to the Post, membership stats</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 05:18:56 Z</pubDate>
      <itunes:author>Joe
 Riel
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      <author>Joe
 Riel
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      <title>hover over a user's maple leaf</title>
      <link>http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41325-Membership-Stats?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:membership stats:Comments#comment85507</link>
      <itunes:summary>I deduced 4736 registered users by hovering over the maple leaf &amp; number of some recently joined members whose handles appeared in the "Who's new" list. I believe that I was close to spot on, at the time I posted, and that discrepency with Will's figure was due to the later date of his posting.

If you hover over Will's leaf, you'll see the number 1, which may be a good hint that it is a userid. Hovering over others' leaves shows a reasonable correlation with the stated time of membership shown on profile pages.

I do not know how to easily gather all userids and handles, assuming that these guesses are close to correct. It might be possible using wget and some scripting work (which could be similar to what Will referred to by the term "scraping").

I can only imagine that the csv file posted was a snapshot of a window in time, a subset of the entire  set of postings here -- possibly only those since mapleprimes left beta?!

acer</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 06:48:03 Z</pubDate>
      <itunes:author>acer</itunes:author>
      <author>acer</author>
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      <title>thanks</title>
      <link>http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41325-Membership-Stats?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:membership stats:Comments#comment91455</link>
      <itunes:summary>Thanks, that does the trick.  I assume that the timestamp in the file is the typical Unix timestamp (seconds from epoch) which means the data is from June 28, 2005 to May 27, 2007, which covers almost the entire life of MaplePrimes.  So I don't understand why there are so few entries in the log (e.g, Will, user 1, has 111, which is way off).</itunes:summary>
      <description>The latest comments added to the Post, membership stats</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 07:42:54 Z</pubDate>
      <itunes:author>Joe Riel</itunes:author>
      <author>Joe Riel</author>
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