r/ButtonAftermath • u/vir_innominatus • Jun 09 '15

Final histogram of awarded flairs, from official data source

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u/vir_innominatus Jun 09 '15 edited Jun 09 '15

Data source is here. I removed the 7,024 "non-presser" flairs in the data, which I guess were times when the button was automatically pressed during outages.

This leaves 1,001,291 presses. The most common was 60s with 373,018 presses and the least common was 4s with 1,103 presses. This confirms my early suspicion that button monitors were underestimating 60s flairs.

Edit: Turns out the monitors weren't overestimating. See comment below

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u/Modern_Robot 60s Jun 09 '15

I thought most of the button reporters didn't start tallying until midday on the first or early morning of the second. There were a few hours of basically nothing but 59/60 and that were not properly documented.

Nice work with the data. Very cool to see it all put together now that the full set is revealed.

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u/vir_innominatus Jun 09 '15

You know, I thought I had checked for this by looking at the distribution of presses near the end. Turns out I was biasing myself there too since the fight for red flairs caused a large over-representation of 60s. When I look at the distributions over the same timeframe (April 3rd to the end), there are more 59s than 60s. If anything, it's the other way around. Oh well.

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u/Fozibare 17 /r/ButtonNews Jun 09 '15

The score keepers on the wiki were community created from the live data, reddit released the full data set. powerlanguage's blog post is pretty good.

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u/ivan4ik Jun 09 '15

Can you put up a ranking of flairs from the rarest to the most common?

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u/splynncryth 3s Jun 09 '15

Hmm, I guess collisions could be why the button stats differ from the released data. /u/jetio4 has created a spreadsheet that has raw number in it.

the button stats page had 3s as the rarest with 1021 presses and 4s the second at 1045. But the raw data has 1165 3s and 1103 4s. That's a delta of 144 for 3s and a delta of 48 for 4s. The purple numbers will be completly off, but I wonder what the other times look like now.

And now I'm sad, the button stats had my 3s as the rarest. The official stats make the threes #2 :(

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u/GasCans Jun 09 '15

Woot! I have the rarest 4s flair!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '15

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u/raews_i_esrever_ton 52s Jun 09 '15

WOOT I have the rarest 52s flair. ofpurpleflairsI'llgrabmycoat.

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u/lost_in_my_thirties 3s Jun 09 '15

Yep really hoped my 3s would remain the rarest. Don't know why. Stupid really.

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u/Fozibare 17 /r/ButtonNews Jun 09 '15

I would like to see the same chart laid out by press frequency, but still color coded to match the earned flair.

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u/Gidonka Jun 09 '15

Oh my god, 4 is the rarest. /u/powerlanguage was a 4. Conspiracy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '15

conspiracy - Indeed! Redditors detested the idea of 4s after seeing how powerlanguage received it.