On June 25, 2007 I published the first FlowingData post. Today, here is the one thousandth. I asked what I should do for this special occasion and pretty much everyone said I should visualize the posts somehow, so here we go.
With the exception of the holiday gaps and the early months, I’ve managed to stay surprisingly consistent, yeah?
Thanks for reading, everyone. Gold star for anyone who remembers what FlowingData’s theme color was in 2007.
Congrats Nathan!
Yeah you really have been consistent over the years.
I discovered your blog around mid 2008, but since that it has been a daily visual “pick me up”.
Thanks and hope you get the next 1000 posts:)
thanks, ricki :)
Congratulations on your 1,000th post, Nathan. I learn something interesting from everyone of them.
I’m sorry, Nathan, but I couldn’t understand what does the color stand for, what do the different lines/columns mean and what are those callout labels?
Otherwise, congratulations.
Thanks, Boris.
Reading left to right, each square area represents a day in the year. Squares are colored by their post category (viz, stat, other) and blank spaces are days I didn’t post. For example, in 2009 I was pretty set on not posting on weekends, but it’s been a bit different this year.
But yeah, this graphic is probably one of those that’s more meaningful to me than anyone else. Context :)
Thank you. The problem with coloring is that the scheme you have chosen implies intensity. My guess was that the colors represent comment activity or the similar.
@Boris
I took me a while as well:)
Something that maybe could have helped me was if
the squares were arranged as calendar, with a month in a 7 x 6 grid, weekdays horizontal and weeks vertical.
I can see the comments increase over the years, could be cool if you do something with visits/comments when you hit 2000 posts:)
A lovely green and black, perhaps?
@Justin – you get a gold star! thanks for reading all this time :)
Congratulations!
Infosthetics recently visualized their five year milestone thus
http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/5yrs-infosthetics/
i saw that. jealous. maybe moritz will make one for FD on its fifth birthday. only two years to go…
Congrats Nathan!! :)
thanks, patti!
Congrats and well done. For your next trick, build a model that predicts the distribution of topics for the next month.
i’d hate to know how predictable i actually am.
green!