Delicious statistics
Statistics is a broad mathematical discipline which studies ways to collect, summarize and draw conclusions from data. [Wikipedia]
Statistics help us to draw conclusions from data. In a way this whole tagging thing just popped up and now we are trying to figure out what really is happening. I think statistics can help us to understand tags.
When I did set up my performance test system I wanted to know the metrics of delicious so I did try to extrapolate some hand collected data but it didn’t turn out that well.
After that I started collecting post data from del.icio.us and am happy to announce that I’ve set up a site with delicious statistics that is fully automated (my hands can rest now..). There are trends about number of posts per day as well as numbers of tags per post.
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