[Bigbang-dev] Big Bang Notebook Questions Corinne

[Nick Doty]

On Jul 27, 2018, at 12:12 PM, Niels ten Oever <mail at nielstenoever.net> wrote:
> 
> Hiya,
> 
> On 07/27/2018 05:58 PM, Corinne Cath wrote:
> <<snip>>
>> I was wondering if the list-at-large has any ideas where the
>> inconsistencies come from re: number of emails filtered per year or month?
>> 
>> Because it throws up some real questions regarding using the data
>> presented by the tool in academic publications.
> 
> Well - that is why this notebook is still in the experimental folder :)
> 
> Am sure Nick or Sebastian have a simple explanation.

Apologies, I'm arriving late to this thread. Can someone share more details on what the inconsistency is? Is there a notebook or a specific set of steps that shows too different counts for the same mailing list? That would help us dive in a little deeper on the issue.

Thanks,
Nick

>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Beraldo, Davide <d.beraldo at uva.nl
>> <mailto:d.beraldo at uva.nl>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Also, I have tested the inconsistency you mention and I do get them
>>    on other mls as well. When measuring the number of emails as the
>>    length of the (filtered) archive, it gives a slightly different
>>    result then when filtering per month and doing the total. I tried to
>>    dig into it but really cannot make sense of it at the moment