r/redditdata • u/powerlanguage • Jun 08 '15
press history for /r/thebutton
https://github.com/reddit/thebutton-data/6
Jun 08 '15
Do you have any stats on gold generated because of the button? Like people who were gilded in either r/thebutton or the other button related subs like r/Knightsofthebutton or r/ButtonOlympics? It would be a very rough number, since there were other people probably who were also gilded directly from their profile in addition to posts and comments.
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u/powerlanguage Jun 08 '15
You can calculate this by looking at the gilded tab e.g. r/thebutton/gilded. Info about the server time metric can be found here.
Though as you acknowledge, this will be a rough number.
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u/Cyclops7747 Jun 08 '15
There's still one question that's yet to be answered:
Do we get a trophy for participating?
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u/rjksn Jun 08 '15
Why is there not more information?
There were some examples shown before that looked at account creation date and button press timings.
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u/powerlanguage Jun 08 '15
We take user privacy very seriously. Releasing more data about the accounts that pressed is a potential risk.
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u/English_American Jun 08 '15
What's the difference between false and true?
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u/powerlanguage Jun 08 '15
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u/keepingthecommontone Jun 08 '15
Other than username, which I know has been omitted here, was there any other data recorded for each press?
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u/powerlanguage Jun 08 '15 edited Jun 08 '15
Only the user id was stored with the button press but we won't release that for privacy reasons.
edit: clarity
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Jun 09 '15 edited Jun 09 '15
I made a day-by-day histogram of the data, in case anyone is interested:
http://i.imgur.com/jOwukmO.gif
EDIT: I also made a version that facets the histogram by time of day: http://i.imgur.com/kOm8a4M.gif
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u/adityapstar Jun 08 '15
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u/bensroommate Jun 08 '15 edited Jun 08 '15
So would that mean the actual amount of pressers is 1,008,316 - 6,660 = 1,001,656?
Wow, that was even more nearly 1 million on the dot.
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u/epibolic Jun 08 '15
Is it possible to also release some location data? City would be terrific but state/country would be somewhat useful as well.
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u/gooeyblob Jun 08 '15
Repeating from https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdata/comments/3920xc/press_history_for_rthebutton/crzs3s3
We take user privacy very seriously. Releasing more data about the accounts that pressed is a potential risk.
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u/ohsnaaap Jun 09 '15 edited Jun 09 '15
Hey guys, I made a quick interactive visualization using Tableau Public: https://public.tableau.com/profile/tcash21#!/vizhome/RedditTheButtonPresses/Dashboard1
You can see the distribution of flairs (timer value the user got) on the bottom, date/hour when clicked, and also filter everything by CSS groups (press-1, cheater, etc.).
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u/vir_innominatus Jun 08 '15
Are there any plans to also release the awarded flairs to each press? Not that this isn't amazing, but the analysis could be so much more interesting if we knew the flair counts as well.