Fandom Data Viz

[redfiona99]

Since another fic has reached 1000 AO3 hits, I have updated this graph.



The curve no longer looks as nice, I think because there's still a low number of incidents (fics hitting 1000), and because I'm basically doing a belts and braces version of visualising it. I have got a link to a guide to how to do this in R somewhere, I've just got to find it and once I do, I should be able to produce a nicer graph.

The difference in likelihood of reaching 1000 is still not significant.

Comments

[ioplokon]

So if I'm reading this correctly, shippy and gen fics are both more or less equally likely to reach 1000 hits at some point, for a reasonably popular & consistent author. It's just that shippy ones appear to be more likely to hit it early on? (& survival % is the % of stories of that genre that have not yet reached 1k hits?)

I don't get a lot of practice reading graphs in the presence of someone who can actually tell me if I've got it wrong, so hope you don't mind...

[redfiona99]

That's it exactly. I mean, I'm probably applying slightly the wrong statistical test but for what I have available it will do.

I think partly it's a low number of things being followed (fics) and a very low number of events (fics hitting 1000 hits) that's skewing it. Hopefully we're doing some stuff about power calculations at work soon that I can (mis)apply to this :)