Characteristic of AFL diggers

This entry was posted by Laura on Monday, 15 November, 2010 at

I like random data. You never know when it will turn out to be handy. Last evening and this morning, I bench marked some totals regarding how many digg submissions existed for various keywords. After that, I copy and pasted some of those search results, and labeled them by league/team. In addition to that, I recorded profile information for people who had submitted things to digg. If I looked at their profile and they had other digg listings that they submitted or had dugg, I added those teams to the list. Given the issues with finding out the true total of results for these teams, the data I have is just a sample. These samples are not large. (This data is not easy to manually mine.)

For all teams where I have 5+ people who submitted a link related to a team or dugg a link related to a team, I decided to calculate the mean, median and mode.

League Team Math Followers Following Diggs Daily Diggs Submissions Daily Submissions Comments
AFL West Coast Eagles Mean 4.35 8.35 1841.5 0 1845.21 43.5 0.78
Median 1 0 28.5 0 28.5 0 0
Mode 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
AFL Port Adelaide Power Mean 4.2 7.93 1737.6 0 1740.33 40.6 0.93
Median 2 0 29 0 29 0 0
Mode 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
AFL Collingwood Magpies Mean 7.69 13.92 2158.23 0 1961.92 42.07 11.07
Median 2 0 245 0 88 0 0
Mode 0 0 #N/A 0 #N/A 0 0
AFL St. Kilda Saints Mean 28.30 23.30 2564.15 0 2226.15 48.15 2.46
Median 6 3 959 0 225 0 0
Mode 2 0 #N/A 0 #N/A 0 0
AFL Geelong Cats Mean 3.375 4.25 2805.875 0 2807.25 66.25 0.75
Median 1.5 0 104 0 81 0 0
Mode 0 0 #N/A 0 #N/A 0 0

There appear to be some differences between people who submit links to /digg AFL related links by team.  If this holds true for a larger sample (currently between 9 and 16 diggers) would be an interesting question.  I don’t know how feasible that will be given the time issue.

My digg data is available here.

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ANYPWFYQMNG7NRB55Q7C3PR6C4 Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont

    Perhaps another word might be “duggers”, because of the soldiers in the wars.

    It’s hard when there’s not a standardised word for the phenomenon you’re describing.

  • http://www.fanhistory.com LauraH

    Some one pointed that out to me on Twitter. Was kind of a whoops! I’ll be more careful of that word in the future when I get back to this topic.

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