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New comic: A cunning plan

By: Tateru Nino

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Spoke too soon

By: Tateru Nino

Guess I spoke too soon about the Second Life statistics data that I use to make up the graphs and charts. It’s back off the air after barely 24 hours of actually running again.

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New comic: A mystery!

By: Tateru Nino

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Well, most of the Second Life economic statistics and some figures related to number of user logins over differing periods disappeared after 28 December 2009.

The good news is that the data came back.

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While upgrading a lot of the charts to the new charting engine, I made a minor mistake that stopped the user-concurrency and user-to-user transaction charts from updating for a number of hours. This is now fixed. Apologies for the error. No data was lost – those charts were just not refreshing.


Geographic, cultural and demographic stereotyping can actually be a very good tool, if correctly applied. It’s used every day by businesses, organizations and governments to create and improve plans and implementations, determine budgets, design products, market services and so on.

They’re also completely misused every day by a significant fraction of everyone, because stereotypes and demographics are not reversible.

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New chart – transactions

By: Tateru Nino

As you may recall, I’ve got scripts that have been gathering data all unattended now for a couple of years – data that doesn’t already appear in the existing Second Life statistical charts. Well, I’m starting to process some of that data now, and make charts out of it, pending additional analysis.

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Lost data

By: Tateru Nino

I lost roughly 24 hours or so of Second Life statistical data this week, unfortunately. The logged-in-last-60-days figures vanished from the feeds, and two of the scripts made some old and rather unfortunate assumptions about the content.

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I’ve added a new graph to the bottom of the Second Life statistics page. It’s median user-concurrency for Second Life charted over the last 365 days.

Median Second Life user concurrencyThe tall spike in the middle looks like a bit of an anomaly. I’ll investigate that in the data. Would a longer period be useful? Are there variant graphs that people are interested in seeing?


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