Statalist activity level (dataset included)

[Alan Riley (StataCorp)]

One of our distributors was asking recently about the activity level of Stata users in online discussion areas. I put the following dataset together for them with counts of posts on the old Statalist email list and the new Statalist forum through the end of April 2015. I thought Statalist members might find it interesting.

. describe using statalist_post_counts.dta

Contains data                                
  obs:         4,713                          6 May 2015 12:35
 vars:             4                          
 size:        94,260                          
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              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
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date            long    %td                  
newcount        long    %12.0g                Daily post counts on statalist.org
oldcount        long    %12.0g                Daily post counts on former
                                                Statalist listserver
week            long    %12.0g                
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One thing to note is that the 27jul2003 value of oldcount, 223, does not accurately reflect the list activity value on that date. Someone had a vacation autoresponder set up in their email program which resulted in a flood of looping messages to the list that day.

I might need to be reminded, but I'll try to post this dataset at least quarterly.

[Sergio Correia]

(can anyone saveold it?)

[Alan Riley (StataCorp)]

(can anyone saveold it?)

Here it is in Stata 13 format.

[Friedrich Huebler]

gen month = mofd(date)
format month %tm
collapse (sum) newcount oldcount, by(month)
graph twoway (line oldcount month if oldcount>0) (line newcount month if newcount>0)
graph export statalist.png, width(500)

[Chen Samulsion]

Have been there new data since April 2015?

[Joro Kolev]

I am also interested in what Chen is asking: Do we have an updated version of the Statalist counts?