Like I did last year, I’ve compiled a set of statistics about my birthday. So here goes:
Statistics
Birthday messages
Facebook messages – 65
Face to face greets – 4
Text messages – 4
Tweets – 1
Frequency of Facebook messages vs. Time (i.e. when was the message posted)
(Time in 24 hour format i.e. 0 is 12am, 22 is 10pm)
Comparison of AEST and UTC:
| AEST | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| UTC | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Number of people who attempted to use my ‘initials’ signature – 11
Number of people who used it incorrectly – 3
Facebook email lag* – 11
Amount spent on scratchies – $10
Amount lost – $10
Cash received as gifts – $364.2
*Every time I get a wall post, an email is sent to me. This is the number of emails it did not send me.
Observations
Some observations about the graph I’d like to point out. (Yes! I get to nerd out now.)
I would have expected a normal distribution (bell-shaped curve) which meant that the majority of responses were in the middle of the day. But as the graph shows, it is quite evenly distributed.
The unusual concentration at 12am-2am is the result of people who (I think):
- wanted to be the first to wish me Happy Birthday (at 12am)
- were studying late (all-nighter)
- (in one case) was overseas (from the raw data, one message was from a person in the UK, hence the local time would have been 5pm)(London is UTC+1)
My other prediction is that the ‘spike’ at 6pm is due to people coming home after a day at uni.
Now, about the initials. For those who don’t know, I write the same thing for each person’s birthday. I sign with my initials, BH. This statistic shows that the trend of signing with initials was popular with some of you. Also, three of you managed to use my initials instead of your own! Well done.
Next, Facebook email lag. This is an interesting one. It shows that Facebook’s email servers can’t keep up with the posts of my wall, hence, I wasn’t sent emails about wall posts for 11 people.
Messages
OK. That’s enough of the stats, now the personal messages. You know who you are.
To those who are overseas, I miss you too.
To those who signed with initials, Thank you. BH
I do miss French, as well as the free hugs.
Merci beaucoup.
Cale, FAIL! (Now that rhymes!)
To everyone else, Thank you, keep in touch, and see you soon.
