tlog » data analysis http://www.tibonihoo.net/blog Juste comme ça... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:58:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The “paper” effect http://www.tibonihoo.net/blog/en/2009/05/the-paper-effectleffet-papier/ http://www.tibonihoo.net/blog/en/2009/05/the-paper-effectleffet-papier/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 21:19:38 +0000 Thibauld http://www.tibonihoo.net/blog/?p=303 There’s a strange pattern appearing in the number of visits on my blog, that does not seem to be linked with my posts. It can be seen in the image below — where I’ve voluntarily removed the scale for the (pathetic) number of views. Suffices to say that the highest point is a 10x jump in visitors1.

L'effet "papier"

The paper effect

By checking what are  the pages viewed in such occasions, I’ve realized that it’s mostly all about my LaTeX page2. So, my nice visitors are very likely to be writing scientific papers, report or visual presentation3 at those times.

But a mystery remains as I’m still unable to explain the full pattern: the jumps seem to be regularly set. The red ones are on tuesday/wednesday (is that a late student I see working on his presentation until wednesday morning when he/she has to defend his/her project ?) and the orange ones are on tuesday/friday (a paper to submit on friday I guess… and f**king late as far as I can tell)…

Anyway, for those of you who are struggling to get your papers perfect, don’t forget the awesome advices from PhDComics:

Conseil pour respecter les consignes de mise en page

  1. which sums up to not that much actually:)
  2. which, now I think of it, is still not translated to english :S
  3. and most probably not doing so in english…
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