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Cocoa ([personal profile] momijizukamori) wrote2020-12-14 08:01 pm
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AO3 Stats

Inspired by [personal profile] superborb's post! This was honestly mostly an excuse to play around with
pandas
and boggle at how much fanfiction I've read. General caveats - because the data is scrapped from the history page, which only records the most recent visit, ongoing/re-read stuff is skewed towards the present; it still lists works even if you didn't finish reading them; and you have to contend with the general messiness of AO3 tagging (I normalized the MDZS tags because works were showing up under.... *counts* ten different tags, but I didn't bother doing any other fandoms that way).


First, some whole-history graphs:

Words read per-month in the twenty fandoms I've read the most fic for (twenty being the max I could easily graph without having to do a bunch of handpicking colors)


Overall words read per year

It's interesting to see there's kind of a yearly cycle where I read less in spring and more in the fall - at a guess, it's because spring is when most of my conventions are, so I'm busy with cosplay stuff? Also interesting to see fandoms cycle in and out.

And then 2020:

Number of works read per month in top ten fandoms


Number of words read per month in top ten fandoms

Yeah uhhhh you can kind of see MDZS dominating both categories after August, heh.

And then top ten ships for year by work count, not graphed because ehhhh lazy:
Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn           909
Leone Abbacchio/Bruno Buccellati                      332
Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn     99
Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī & Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī          85
Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn          58
Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén & Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī          57
Jiāng Yànlí/Jīn Zǐxuān                                 54
Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén       50
Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims                         46
Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Niè Huáisāng                43


And by words:
Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn         14569959
Leone Abbacchio/Bruno Buccellati                     4362351
Jiāng Yànlí/Jīn Zǐxuān                               2192339
Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn   1859050
Giorno Giovanna/Guido Mista                          1334693
Minor or Background Relationship(s)                  1155502
Kakyoin Noriaki/Kujo Jotaro                          1134426
Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Niè Huáisāng               909096
Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī & Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn         859257
Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén/Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo         858132


It's interesting to see how JYL/JZX and Giorno/Mista jump up when sorted by words - neither are ships I hunt for, but both have a tendency to be background ships in works featuring my top two ships, and are more likely to get enough screentime to justify a tag in long fics.

And last but not least, a word cloud of all the freeform tags, aka calling myself out for my love of h/c:



I do still have a copy of my data, so if anyone has suggestions for other interesting stats to calculate, I'm all ears!
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[personal profile] superborb 2020-12-15 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man, that word cloud would be interesting, since I didn't do any analysis on the freeform tags. And it looks easy instead of having to figure out how normalize all of that data aha

Very interesting how cyclic your data is! Mine doesn't appear to have such a strong pattern.