+Danie Viljoen Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Road Trip '15: Souvenir 4 The fourth souvenir was for finding an EarthCache or attending a CITO between 31 July and 2 September 2015. There were 657 qualifying caches in Africa (647 ECs and 10 CITOs) and 310 in South Africa (301 ECs and 9 CITOs). In the whole of Africa, 850 cachers qualified for this souvenir. (253 in South Africa.) (165 cachers qualified for all of the first four souvenirs.) Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Road Trip '15: Souvenirs 5 & 6 The fifth souvenir was for finding a mystery cache between 14 August and 2 September 2015. There were 1578 qualifying caches in Africa. (1212 in South Africa.) In the whole of Africa, 483 cachers qualified for this souvenir. (253 in South Africa). The sixth souvenir was for cachers who have qualified for the first 5 souvenirs. There were 154 in the whole of Africa. Link to comment
+Delbadore Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Awesome roadtrip stats Danie! Very interesting to see the spread of the number of cachers. I find it quite surprising that there were only 154 handles that completed all of them . Link to comment
+DamhuisClan Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Wow! I am 1 of a 154 people that got all 6 souvenirs. Wow! Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Longest unfound caches in South Africa: 1. GCYMH6 Majubasnek Eastern Cape 7.77 years 2. GC199Z5 Black Holes Eastern Cape 7.71 years 3. GC1902T Ivory Trail - Camp Ntomeni Limpopo 7.71 years 4. GC17Y0Z Nsami View Limpopo 7.48 years 5. GCJ6RE Droster's Pass Cache Western Cape 7.27 years 6. GC1GB7M Takazi Waterfall Eastern Cape 7.16 years 7. GC1G5TY Izele Convent Eastern Cape 6.58 years 8. GCXBXX Mpande Eastern Cape 6.54 years 9. GC14R3H Ivory Trail - Camp Blouberg Limpopo 6.52 years 10. GCWYBB Blouberg Views Limpopo 6.27 years 11. GC1PKBF Tonteldoos - Groot Skat Limpopo 6.16 years 12. GCF9FC Just Climb It Free State 6.15 years 13. GC1GB96 Nongqawuse pools Eastern Cape 6.07 years 14. GCY1NM Memel Escarpment Free State 6.06 years 15. GC254GT 3 FenCes-Dewildt bike trails North West 5.68 years 16. GCZRTB Baviaanskloof rock art. Eastern Cape 5.63 years 17. GCV2M7 Carlisle’s Hoek Falls Eastern Cape 5.36 years 18. GCYH7Y Jonty's genesis Mpumalanga 5.25 years 19. GC1VCCP ZUURBERG - DORINGNEK Eastern Cape 5.19 years 20. GCJN7F Getowerdekop Western Cape 5.15 years Per province: Eastern Cape: 1. GCYMH6 Majubasnek 7.77 years 2. GC199Z5 Black Holes 7.71 years 3. GC1GB7M Takazi Waterfall 7.16 years 4. GC1G5TY Izele Convent 6.58 years 5. GCXBXX Mpande 6.54 years Limpopo: 1. GC1902T Ivory Trail - Camp Ntomeni 7.71 years 2. GC17Y0Z Nsami View 7.48 years 3. GC14R3H Ivory Trail - Camp Blouberg 6.52 years 4. GCWYBB Blouberg Views 6.27 years 5. GC1PKBF Tonteldoos - Groot Skat 6.16 years Western Cape: 1. GCJ6RE Droster's Pass Cache (Western Cape) 7.27 years 2. GCJN7F Getowerdekop 5.15 years 3. GCRMAA Bacco's lookout 3.92 years 4. GC10693 HeksieToringtand 3.87 years 5. GCRN5E Seal Island 3.84 years Free State: 1. GCF9FC Just Climb It 6.15 years 2. GCY1NM Memel Escarpment 6.06 years 3. GCVK5Y Smiffie 2.86 years 4. GC1TP9R The Boot 2.78 years 5. GCTJ1A Orange-Caledon River View 2.55 years North West: 1. GC254GT 3 FenCes-Dewildt bike trails 5.68 years 2. GC2M7P6 Another Tufa waterfall in NC 3.64 years 3. GC39007 Madikwe - Molatedi Village 3.61 years 4. GCYQVC Phaladingwe 3.27 years 5. GCRQY5 Across an Olive 2.40 years Mpumalanga: 1. GCYH7Y Jonty's genesis 5.25 years 2. GCZRHF Overhang Haven 3.72 years 3. GCWH82 Boys and their Toys 3.52 years 4. GC2M2DN Small steel bridge over nothing 3.32 years 5. GC1CPE9 5 Star 3.12 years KZN: 1. GC1KVMB Tugela Bushveld - The Waterfalls 5.14 years 2. GC1478N Joshie's Driving Lesson 5.08 years 3. GC17X73 Radical pools 4.61 years 4. GC12K6M Utrecht River 4.59 years 5. GC2V443 Sapphire Pool 4.56 years Northern Cape: 1. GC1V1G4 Springbokpan 4.11 years 2. GC3GQ7Z Springklipberg 3.13 years 3. GC2K9JY End of Poplor lane 2.66 years 4. GC3QJ8W Kromkolk 2.66 years 5. GC3QJ85 The Nuweveldberge escarpment 2.65 years Gauteng: 1. GC2J89J The Cross 3.21 years 2. GCWBV3 The Amazing Cache #4: United Kingdom 2.26 years 3. GC3DQZ2 BPS#6 Picture & Page Puzzle 2.23 years 4. GC2HJ0B Chiroptera 2.20 years 5. GC2JRZP Kransroete 2.20 years Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Thanks Danie - some Christmas holiday wish lists And congrats on your 4000th find! Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Oldest never found South African caches: 1. GC2V443 Sapphire Pool Uthukela Kwazulu Natal 4.56 years 2. GC35P1M Ships Prow Uthukela Kwazulu Natal 4.11 years 3. GC39MEP Rockeries Uthukela Kwazulu Natal 3.87 years 4. GC4PY49 The Mystery Geocoin Nelson Mandela Bay Eastern Cape 2.11 years 5. GC4RGYK 9Peaks - Kwa Duma Joe Gqabi Eastern Cape 2.06 years 6. GC4RJQH The Virtual Geocoin Nelson Mandela Bay Eastern Cape 2.03 years 7. GC4XQXR Tugela Bushveld - Bitter Aloes Uthukela Kwazulu Natal 1.82 years 8. GC55GP9 Eurosurfer 1 Mangaung Free State 1.48 years 9. GC5AP46 Moorfield Mountain Water Source Amajuba Kwazulu Natal 1.39 years 10. GC5HXBV Tugela Bushveld - Pylon Hill Uthukela Kwazulu Natal 0.92 years Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 When last were RSA caches found? The first graph shows the number of South African caches found 0, 1, 2, ... days ago. The second graph is the same as the first, just zoomed in to the first few days. It is interesting to see the periodic (7 days) cycle. The peaks correspond to the weekends. The third graph is the cumulative distribution of the above. Here we can for example see that 80% of all active South African caches have been found during the last 6 months. To get to 90% takes us back to a full year. (50% of all the caches have been found during the last 49 days - remarkable!) Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Days since last found, per province: The following numbers are for all active (findable) caches. Average Median Gauteng: 97 days 35 days NW: 125 days 39 days WC: 116 days 40 days FS: 126 days 49 days EC: 143 days 50 days Mpumalanga: 145 days 61 days Limpopo: 190 days 71 days KZN: 158 days 73 days NC: 180 days 76 days RSA: 129 days 49 days (Median can be interpreted as the number of days required for half of the active caches to be found.) One can understand why the Northern Cape is at the bottom of the list - very low cache density, few cachers, few tourists. I am, however, at a loss to explain why the KZN caches are found so slowly. I expected KZN to be up there with the Western Cape - high cache density, many cachers, many tourists. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 2015 Statistics, Part 1: The following statistics are for the year 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015: Most African finds: 1. Spesbona: 1522 finds 2. bergbokkie: 1443 finds 3. SKATTIE@1: 1298 finds 4. Panters: 1283 finds 5. GorNat: 1156 finds 6. ChrisDen: 1105 finds 7. terunkie: 1014 finds 8. AdieA: 973 finds 9. Andredj: 940 finds 10. Mixs: 855 finds Most South African finds: 1. Spesbona: 1516 finds 2. bergbokkie: 1414 finds 3. SKATTIE@1: 1298 finds 4. Panters: 1283 finds 5. GorNat: 1156 finds 6. ChrisDen: 1095 finds 7. terunkie: 1014 finds 8. AdieA: 968 finds 9. Andredj: 906 finds 10. Mixs: 855 finds Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Part 2: Number of new South African caches On average 7.3 new caches were published per day, about 14% more than in 2014. Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 2015 Statistics, Part 1: The following statistics are for the year 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015: Most African finds: 1. Spesbona: 1522 finds 2. bergbokkie: 1443 finds 3. SKATTIE@1: 1298 finds 4. Panters: 1283 finds 5. GorNat: 1156 finds 6. ChrisDen: 1105 finds 7. terunkie: 1014 finds 8. AdieA: 973 finds 9. Andredj: 940 finds 10. Mixs: 855 finds Most South African finds: 1. Spesbona: 1516 finds 2. bergbokkie: 1414 finds 3. SKATTIE@1: 1298 finds 4. Panters: 1283 finds 5. GorNat: 1156 finds 6. ChrisDen: 1095 finds 7. terunkie: 1014 finds 8. AdieA: 968 finds 9. Andredj: 906 finds 10. Mixs: 855 finds First trime in ages that iPajero does not make this list! Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 First trime in ages that iPajero does not make this list! Yes, I was surprised to see that they only came in at position 21. I guess their long USA tour took its toll! (I won't be surprised to see them back at the top very soon.) Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Part 3: Most caches placed in Africa during 2015: 1. Panters: 85 2. SKATTIE@1: 72 3. Andredj: 67 4. scubie999: 65 5. cach-u-crew: 64 6. PieterM: 63 7. V-ixen: 62 8. togtog: 60 9. Wander Tante: 58 Oss to: 58 Link to comment
+Riisearch Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Part 2: Number of new South African caches On average 7.3 new caches were published per day, about 14% more than in 2014. What's with the high amount of cache placements in 2013? The GPS trail perhaps? Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) What's with the high amount of cache placements in 2013? The GPS trail perhaps? No, the GPS trail was published in 2011. During 2013 several series were published, among them the Posting Box series, the Power series (in Bloemfontein), the Seaview series, the SR series and the Curse of the Nanos series. Nothing special, really. Edited January 11, 2016 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+TechnoNut Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 What's with the high amount of cache placements in 2013? The GPS trail perhaps? No, the GPS trail was published in 2011. During 2013 several series were published, among them the Posting Box series, the Power series (in Bloemfontein), the Seaview series, the SR series and the Curse of the Nanos series. Nothing special, really. In addition - during 2013 there were a number of power trail caches placed in the iLembe district of KZN. Approx 150. Most have now been archived. Names like SR ##, ZR ##. TMR ##. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Part 3: Most caches placed in South Africa during 2015: 1. Panters: 85 2. SKATTIE@1: 72 3. Andredj: 67 4. PieterM: 63 5. scubie999: 62 V-ixen: 62 7. ephyfer: 56 Evolutionaries: 56 9. TechnoNut: 55 10. PumTim: 54 Link to comment
+DamhuisClan Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Part 2: Number of new South African caches On average 7.3 new caches were published per day, about 14% more than in 2014. What's with the high amount of cache placements in 2013? The GPS trail perhaps? Danie: Are these pictures permenanly available on bitbucket? Can I reference them on the www.geocachingsa.com web site? Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Danie: Are these pictures permenanly available on bitbucket? Can I reference them on the www.geocachingsa.com web site? Yes, and yes. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Part 4: South African finds per day: The busiest day in 2015 was 24 Sep with 1982 finds (4.3 times the daily average). I am not really sure why - apart from the fact that it was a holiday I don't see any special reason. It was not even on a weekend! The quietest day was 1 Jun with only 79 finds (0.17 times the daily average). On average there were 461 finds per day. (The median was 314). If one looks at the weekly number of finds, the graph is much smoother (because the weekend peaks are smoothed out): Here the peak is during the week around 30 Dec, with 8861 finds (2.7 times the weekly average). The quietest week was around 2 Jun, with 1329 finds (0.4 times the weekly average). On average there were 3232 finds per week. (The median was 2949). Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Part 5: 2015 Finds per province: 2014 2015 Gauteng: 44133 44208 WC: 38983 52105 KZN: 31150 24870 EC: 20985 21001 Mpumalanga: 6149 7517 FS: 7356 9119 NW: 4621 4811 Limpopo: 2517 3065 NC: 1209 1461 Total: 157103 168157 The surprise here is that the Western Cape easily dethroned Gauteng as the most active caching province. Relative to 2015, the increases were: 1. Western Cape 33.7% 2. Free State 24.0% 3. Mpumalanga 22.2% 4. Limpopo 21.8% 5. Northern Cape 20.8% 6. NW 4.1% 7. Gauteng 0.2% 8. Eastern Cape 0.1% 9. KZN -20.2% Total 7.0% The Western Cape had spectacular growth; the Free State, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the Northern Cape did very well. North West, Gauteng and the Eastern Cape stagnated, and KZN had a very bad year. It is good to see that most of the small provinces (all except North West) had good growth last year. Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 WC - I wonder if the Swartland Trail helped on that - but phenomenal growth. Pity we can't see the growth / activity of foreign cachers in the WC especially. And in 2016 the MEGA will grow that too. KZN - shew - did the MEGA in 2014 really make such a difference? Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Part 6: Most finds per province in 2015: Gauteng: 1. Panters: 1007 finds 2. GorNat: 893 finds 3. AdieA: 672 finds 4. scubie999: 651 finds 5. SpiderFinder: 619 finds Western Cape: 1. Andredj: 834 finds 2. terunkie: 794 finds 3. bergbokkie: 781 finds 4. Team Neil: 710 finds 5. fiebs: 686 finds KZN: 1. M²C²D: 666 finds 2. waydom: 561 finds 3. Beetles and Bentleys: 534 finds 4. indlovu scouts: 524 finds 5. davmur: 520 finds Eastern Cape: 1. Spesbona: 473 finds 2. ChrisDen: 408 finds 3. iPajero: 374 finds 4. PipiBibi: 373 finds 5. NaviMate: 368 finds Free State: 1. die sousies: 253 finds 2. Megsdreyer: 221 finds 3. Mixs: 197 finds Sontinoo: 197 finds 5. nicovdw7: 119 finds Mpumalanga: 1. DADDY"S ANGEL: 148 finds 2. Louise_Gerhard: 146 finds 3. Boats007: 118 finds 4. eksteen: 97 finds 5. wild finder: 90 finds North West: 1. T-YoLo: 92 finds 2. eksteen: 91 finds 3. za pienaar family: 87 finds GorNat: 87 finds 5. Team footprints: 78 finds Limpopo: 1. Jansors: 75 finds 2. Oostewald: 71 finds 3. Smitte21: 63 finds 4. Team Venter: 57 finds 5. Voëlhond: 53 finds Northern Cape: 1. PieterM: 40 finds 2. Andredj: 39 finds 3. The Rhino Team: 35 finds 4. ZS6HDV: 29 finds 5. ChrisDen: 22 finds Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Part 7: Most caches placed during 2015, per province: Gauteng: Panters: 85 scubie999: 50 AdieA: 33 Western Cape: PieterM: 68 SKATTIE@1: 68 Andredj: 66 KZN: V-ixen: 62 TechnoNut: 55 waco&winnie: 27 Eastern Cape: PumTim: 53 iPajero: 36 simplr: 35 North West: Team Tip Top: 27 cincol: 12 scubie999: 9 Mpumalanga: Boats007: 22 MovingHamster: 18 Bouts777: 15 Northern Cape: PieterM: 8 Skilpad: 5 cincol: 4 SKATTIE@1: 4 Limpopo: Bekster77: 8 Jansors: 8 bosvelder: 5 Free State: Firemasters: 4 IwanR: 4 Megsdreyer: 3 Link to comment
+cincol Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Do I boast being listed on 2 provinces!!!! Link to comment
+scubie999 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Do I boast being listed on 2 provinces!!!! erm... 4th in Part 3: Most caches placed in Africa during 2015: 5th in Part 3: Most caches placed in South Africa during 2015: 4th in Gauteng in Part 6: Most finds per province in 2015: 3rd in North West in Part 6: Most finds per province in 2015: My name is scubie999 and I am addicted... Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Part 8: Finds distribution: During 2015 there were 12497 active caches in South Africa, of which 11950 were found during the year. 547 of the active caches (4.4%) were not found during the year. The most found cache was GC2GG2C Nobel Square, with 369 finds during the year. The average number of finds per active cache was 13.5 The median number of finds per active cache was 10. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) Part 9: Number of cachers: During 2015 a total number of 9765 cachers found at least one cache in South Africa. Of these, 2088 found at least 12 caches (my somewhat arbitrary definition of an "active" cacher). See the following graph for a comparison with previous years: What is interesting here is that although the total number of cachers is rising exponentially, the active number only rises linearly. The next graph shows the ratio of active cachers to total cachers over time. It used to be fairly constant, but has dropped quite a bit during the last two years. This surprised me, seeing that it actually gets easier to find 12 caches (because of the continuously increasing number of caches.) Edited January 27, 2016 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+PieterM Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Thanks Danie for all these interesting stats and the hard work in producing them. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Part 10: Most found caches in 2015: All of Africa: 1. GC46ZVA Welcome to the Pearl of the Atlantic Madeira 618 finds 2. GC4QQD3 Horizonte Canary Islands 596 finds 3. GC10499 Las Dunas Canary Islands 576 finds 4. GC1G6MP Vista dunas-View dunes-Aussicht Dünen Canary Islands 561 finds 5. GC1QB6K Palm Beach Canary Islands 548 finds 6. GC31AT3 Christoph Columbus 1502 A.D. Canary Islands 534 finds 7. GC3BXAT E.T. - Der Außerirdische Canary Islands 508 finds 8. GC293W5 Balsnes Tenerife Canary Islands 481 finds 9. GC42819 Vintersol Canary Islands 479 finds 10. GC2JETJ Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida de Niemeyer Madeira 472 finds . 36. GC2GG2C Nobel Square South Africa 369 finds Africa, excluding Madeira and the Canary Islands: 1. GC2GG2C Nobel Square South Africa 369 finds 2. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel South Africa 334 finds 3. GC4YXKY At “Youssef“ in the middle of the Medina Morocco 277 finds 4. GC5112X A Marracache @ Salah Morocco 237 finds 5. GC4QZ5M Red Scarlet Casa Morocco 202 finds 6. GC2D9WC SS: Lusitania South Africa 192 finds 7. GC4H10K GOS: Whale Crier South Africa 169 finds 8. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove South Africa 167 finds 9. GC5NPYJ ALBIRUNI Morocco 166 finds 10. GC59R5H Farol de St. Maria Cape Verde 163 finds South Africa: 1. GC2GG2C Nobel Square Western Cape 369 finds 2. GC31WXR Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel Western Cape 334 finds 3. GC2D9WC SS: Lusitania Western Cape 192 finds 4. GC4H10K GOS: Whale Crier Western Cape 169 finds 5. GCMYYZ Table Top Trove Western Cape 167 finds 6. GC3TXHF Between a rock & a hard place Western Cape 156 finds 7. GC2CG7X Hiddingh Security TB Hotel Western Cape 154 finds 8. GC2AA8R SS: RMS Athens Western Cape 143 finds 9. GC51P6H Trackless Western Cape 128 finds 10. GC3VRM0 Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Western Cape 121 finds Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Thanks Danie for all these interesting stats and the hard work in producing them. Fully Agree - Danie - you are awesome! Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Part 11: Percentage early quitters: The following graph shows the percentage of South African cachers who have found only a single cache in a particular year, and then stopped caching: Unless there are specific requests, this will probably be the last of my series of 2015 statistics. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Log statistics: Part 1: Here is an interesting new one - I managed to make a word cloud of find logs. This one is for the most frequently used words in South African find logs during 2015. (I removed words like the, a, and prepositions.) (45% of the sample of logs I used contained TFTC!) Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 Part 11: Percentage early quitters: The following graph shows the percentage of South African cachers who have found only a single cache in a particular year, and then stopped caching: Unless there are specific requests, this will probably be the last of my series of 2015 statistics. This is rather alarming that 1 in 4 cachers only find 1 cache! So when we introduce people - they do not carry on - and they only find a single cache. We really need to try and convert those people - because I find new cachers bring that enthusiasm and excitement back to cacching. Just looking at KZN - many of the new trails, gadget caches, geo art - have all been from cachers who are relatively new - i.e. less than 2 years on. Similarly - we need to encourage those "bunt out" cachers of 3 to 5 years top remain involved. Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 This is rather alarming that 1 in 4 cachers only find 1 cache! I stopped worrying about the high fall-out rate. I don't think it is primarily because of problems with cache quality or us not being friendly enough - I think it has more to do with the increasingly easier accessibility of geocaching - many more people are in a position to try it, decide it is not for them, and then drop out. I'll start to worry when the number of frequent cachers start to decrease (which it does not.) Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Log statistics: Part 2 I am having a lot of fun analyzing the words used in South African find logs. One of the interesting things I noticed is that in the top 100 words almost all of the words have positive or neutral meaning. Some positive examples are: thanks, easy, quick, great, fun. The sentiment is overwhelmingly positive, but the same terms are used repetitively. Further down the list things get more interesting. Most of the least used words are negative, and it sounds like a horror movie (or a political saga): madmen, corruption, filth, depression, thieves, wounded, widows, sorrows, sickness, groaned, horrid, crappy, monstrosity, distressed, woe, heartbreak, furious, sucks, cruel, execution, and my favourite: sies! So it appears as if we tend to get much more creative when we get worked up about a particularly bad caching experience! Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Log statistics: Part 3 One of the most common themes in South African logs is food. Just look at this mouthwatering list of words: cinnamon, flour, apples, herb, pans, nutritional, lamb-chops, bluecheese, sandwich, munchies, groceries, scrambled, fries, lamb-chops, venison, bakery, croissant, boerebeskuit. Link to comment
+Carbon Hunter Posted February 8, 2016 Author Share Posted February 8, 2016 Log statistics: Part 3 One of the most common themes in South African logs is food. Just look at this mouthwatering list of words: cinnamon, flour, apples, herb, pans, nutritional, lamb-chops, bluecheese, sandwich, munchies, groceries, scrambled, fries, lamb-chops, venison, bakery, croissant, boerebeskuit. interesting - I would have thought coffee; braai; cold drink; beer or wine would have made it too? Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 (edited) interesting - I would have thought coffee; braai; cold drink; beer or wine would have made it too? Oh, they are definitely there! My list is by no means comprehensive - I just listed the first few that caught my eye. Some animals mentioned in find logs during the first few days of 2015: lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, buffalos (all of the big 5!), cheetah, wolves, hippos, greyhound, ox, baboons, hyenas, donkey, sebras, impalas, hedgehog, rinkhals, eendjie, ostrich, hyrax, aap, horse Edited February 9, 2016 by Danie Viljoen Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Log statistics: Part 4: Frequency distribution of Log lengths For the following graph I used the first 20000 find logs of 2016, and compared it to the first 20000 find logs from the beginning (Jan 2001 - Nov 2006). As can be seen, the distribution of the two periods are completely different. In the old days the distribution peaked at a log length of 125 letters. The median log length was 195 letters. Now it peaks at 4 (TFTC), with a median length of only 82. (The median log length is now only 42% of what it was in the beginning. Where originally 50% of all logs were longer than 195 letters, now only 31% are.) Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Log statistics: Part 5 While scanning through the list of words used in South African find logs, I came across these strange ones - my "how on earth does one use these words in a log?" list: gay, virgin, trampoline, ballet, blouwildekar. My prize for the strangest/unlikeliest word goes to: bruistablet! (It only appears strange because it is shown out of context - to see them in the original logs spoils the fun!) Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Log statistics: Part 6: Funny spelling It appears as if many cachers have not read the Harry Potter books yet, because the word "muggle" is spelled at least 43 different ways in the logs! maggles maugel (German?) miggels miggle (Only slightly bothersome) mogels moggels moggles mogles mogol moguls (I kid you not!) moogles mouggle mubble mubblers (Just stand around mumbling incoherently...) muckle mugals mugels muggel muggeles mugggles muggkles mugglars (Thieving ones) mugglers (Hits you over the head?) muggles muggless mugglets mugglettes (The female version?) mugglez mugglies muggloid mugglus mughal mughles muglar (Musical) mugler muglers mugles mugless (Can't drink coffee) muglet (A small one) muglettes muglies (Not a pretty sight) muglles muklers Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Log statistics: Part 7: Comparing the last year with the beginning: For the following statistics I analyzed and compared the find logs of the past year (168 987 logs) and for the period 17 Jan. '01 to 17 Oct. '10 (168 996 logs). Unique words beginning: 113 219 Unique words past year: 79 519 Unique words/log beginning: 0.67 Unique words/log past year: 0.47 This shows that there is much more repetition (copy & paste) in logs now than in the beginning. Word cloud beginning: Word cloud past year: Link to comment
+GlobalRat Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Fascinating stuff Danie! Thanks for the effort Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Log statistics: Part 8: Analysis of all South African find logs: For the period 17 Jan '01 to 14 Feb '16: There were a total of 916 709 find logs. (At this rate we should reach 1 million in the middle of August.) There are a total of 36 360 529 words in these logs. (This is equivalent to 563 average novels! The current rate is one novel every 3.8 days.) A total of 284213 unique words were used. (This may sound like a lot, but a large number of them are names.) Let's look at the most frequently used words: 1. the 5.54% 2. to 3.01% 3. and 2.86% 4. a 2.73% 5. we 1.79% 6. for 1.48% 7. of 1.47% 8. in 1.39% 9. cache 1.38% 10. this 1.35% 11. was 1.33% 12. it 1.28% 13. TFTC 1.12% 14. I 1.12% 15. on 1.02% 16. with 0.91% 17. found 0.74% 18. find 0.69% 19. at 0.65% 20. one 0.65% It takes just the first 8 words in this list to reach 20% of the total, 17 to reach 30% and 71 to reach 50%. To get to 80% one needs the 811 most frequently used words. The following is a graphical representation of this: Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Log statistics: Part 9: TFTC Coming in at position 13 on yesterday's list of most frequently used words, is TFTC. This "word" is used 408 905 times in the 916 709 find logs. I did not check, but I would be surprised if it is often used more than once per log. This implies that close to 45% of all the find logs contain TFTC! Link to comment
+SawaSawa Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Thanks for all the great stats Danie - keep up the good work! A request: could you find/list the top 20 (or 50) total cache finds (SA only and all) for SA cache owners. Thanks! Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 find/list the top 20 (or 50) total cache finds (SA only and all) for SA cache owners. Thanks! Do you mean a list of the most frequently found South African caches? If so, see my posting of 28 January. Link to comment
+SawaSawa Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 find/list the top 20 (or 50) total cache finds (SA only and all) for SA cache owners. Thanks! Do you mean a list of the most frequently found South African caches? If so, see my posting of 28 January. Hi Danie, no I mean the total number of finds of all the owner's caches, the total could be of all the owner's SA hides and/or the total of all their hides (if they have other hides not in SA). Link to comment
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