Saturday, April 14, 2018

Blog Stats for Fun by KimB

[Editor's Post]

With every website and every webpage and every web interaction a host load of data is collected. This data is separate from the intimate details Facebook and Social Media collect but it's part and parcel of the kind of data Google specializes in. Not all data collected is harmful and sometimes it's interesting, in a curious sort of way, to see what the data shows.

Sort of like looking at cheese under a microscope.

Data is data and statistics are statistics and occasionally they may be correct but then maybe they aren't. Because rarely does anyone other than academics reveal how they Got The Answer. So the answers here are for fun and curiosity. 1

  • There are 233 locations on the globe that have been marked as visiting the blog.
  • More than 1,400 pages viewed monthly.

Top 10 Countries visiting the blog
  1. United States
  2. United Kingdom
  3. Canada
  4. Germany
  5. Brazil
  6. Australia
  7. France
  8. Italy
  9. Mexico
  10. Russian Federation
The blog is most popular in
  • California
  • Washington State
  • Utah
  • Arizona
  • Texas
  • Louisiana
  • Illinois
  • Georgia
  • Ohio
  • New York
The blog is least popular in
  • Nevada
  • North Dakota
  • South Dakota
  • Nebraska
  • Arkansas
  • Mississippi
  • Illinois
  • Connecticut
  • Rhode Island
  • New Hampshire
What meta-data says about people is way more than what people say about themselves. This is why meta-data is so powerful.

You might be telling "white lies" to yourself, your family or your boss, but the meta-data says different. And "there's the rub" 2 because meta-data DOES LIE. It just lies differently than people do.

There is no meta-data that is 100% truthful or foolproof.
Why?
You might very well ask...
Because, every programmer knows: Fools are extremely inventive.

And then there are those who are Not Fools but only plan to Fool You.

And now, go open your favorite Social Media App ....


References
  1. Information dated 03/29/2018
  2. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
    Act III
    To sleep, perchance to dream: — ay, there's the rub;
    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hamlet

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