Pouët board stats
category: general [glöplog]
Re: https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=10189&page=7#c567527
So I thought it'd be fun to make a chart to see what country had the most BBS. I wrote a little script to chew through the pouet.net API that Gargaj set up (thanks). I got a CSV from it that I imported into LibreOffice Calc that produced this chart for me:
Here we can see that the winner is '??' which is where all entries that have no phone number end up and also those with unparseable data. After that we have US (not so surprising, every bicycle shed in the US seem to have had a BBS at some point in time) and DE. CA, NL, SE, FI and surprisingly IL are strong too. There are room for errors in this chart depending on how people entered phone numbers in the database. If they omitted the country dialing prefix the script might interpret the area code as some exotic location. I suspect this is the cause of some of the more surprising finds.
I learned some stuff from this and that is that the Czech Republic and Slovakia used the same dialing prefix until 1997 even though they were separate countries.
So I thought it'd be fun to make a chart to see what country had the most BBS. I wrote a little script to chew through the pouet.net API that Gargaj set up (thanks). I got a CSV from it that I imported into LibreOffice Calc that produced this chart for me:
Here we can see that the winner is '??' which is where all entries that have no phone number end up and also those with unparseable data. After that we have US (not so surprising, every bicycle shed in the US seem to have had a BBS at some point in time) and DE. CA, NL, SE, FI and surprisingly IL are strong too. There are room for errors in this chart depending on how people entered phone numbers in the database. If they omitted the country dialing prefix the script might interpret the area code as some exotic location. I suspect this is the cause of some of the more surprising finds.
I learned some stuff from this and that is that the Czech Republic and Slovakia used the same dialing prefix until 1997 even though they were separate countries.
Nice stats! Now call these elite boards.
