Comments on: Delicious statistics

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:58:28 +0000

Here is some additional data about the del.icio.us database contrasted against another mature bookmark service, BookmarkSync.com. The data is striking. http://www.bookmarksync.com/press/041207_1 Your comments are appreciated.

By: James Governor

James Governor — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:05:00 +0000

sorry – singular. tags per bookmark in december.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:41:56 +0000

Excellent tool. Found you through this huge list of del.icio.us tools.

By: phred

phred — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:16:22 +0000

James: What do you mean by “check out those long tails”?

By: james governor

james governor — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:04:31 +0000

check out those long tails…

By: phred

phred — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:14:37 +0000

Work of Jon Udell: Sorry, the link was wrong, now I corrected it.

By: Jakob

Jakob — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:38:21 +0000

At the moment I just need the 25 most used tags and the total numbers in general - but keep collecting data, you never you when you'll need it ;-) I think the numbers you collected in a week will be enough (or at least a dozen posts for the 25th popular tag) because I have a deadline. The numbers of Millionsofgames also fit so it's probably a law. You have my mail address, don't you? A Zeitgeist would be cool! What work of Jon Udell are you talking about? I use the data in CSV but XML is also ok.

By: phred

phred — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:28:54 +0000

Eh, cool article you wrote.. As it is already asked by J Willie I think I'll track the numbers of posts per tag 1) in general 2) per month 3) per week So maybe in the end of 2006 I could offer a delicious Zeitgeist throughout the year (I could sent the data to Jon Udell as he probably wants to do a visualization out of it.. :-) Jakob, would this fulfill your need for data? What format should the data be in? Is XML ok? Or CSV so you could import it into Excel?

By: Jakob

Jakob — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:40:14 +0000

Ok, this is the last time for today :-) I analysed:

The Top 25 most used Dewey Decimal Classes
The Top 25 most used Wikipedia Categories
The Top 25 most used Flickr Tags

DDC and Wikipedia are distributed by a power law with almost the same parameter but popular flickr tags are more logarithmic/exponential distributed. I’d like to know if this is a difference between tagging and classification or between broad and narrow folksonomies. Do you have the Top 20 most used del.icio.us tags with relative numbers?

By: Jakob

Jakob — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:35:13 +0000

I stumpled upon different people talking about the power-law distribution of the frequency of tags (for instance Clay Shirky) but no detailed statistics and number. Unfortunately this is offline. This can give you a hint but some raw data would be better. I revised my data and it's a power-law but what are the parameters.