[plt-dev] number of HtDP graduates

From: Jacob Matthews (jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 13 11:41:56 EDT 2009

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Oct 13, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>>
>> Eli reported that we had over 1,000,000 unique IP hits on htdp.org
>> for the past five years. What does this tell us? -- Matthias
>
> Not much, but I did all the obvious things to make it a conservative
> estimate.  For example, I counted only hits on the book's contents.
>
> If anyone feels like doing a better analysis (like counting only IPs
> that viewed 3 full chapters, etc), then I can make the information
> available.  (I'll need some safe hash to not put out the actual IP
> numbers.)

IP geocode?

It would also be interesting to break it down by month. There's
probably a baseline of people who just wander onto the site at random
times throughout the year, and then a very regular school-cycle
related surge in the fall.

-jacob


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