My Data is Your Data: 2008 Rankings
I took a half-hour this afternoon to clean up my spreadsheet and upload the sucker to archive.org for you fine folks. Here, have some numbers:
OpenOffice [ods] file
Excel [xls] file
Volume Rankings, plain text
Series Rankings, plain text
I’m not above posting lists of eye-glazing length to the blog (as I’m sure you’ve noticed) but in this case I decided to upload a pair of txt files to archive.org instead of subjecting you to the full, glorious rankings.
The spreadsheet is native to OpenOffice, so if you have problems with it, it’s your own damn fault for trafficking with The Man instead of supporting the open source community. (should be fine in Excel, tho)
The four tabs on the spreadsheet are “volume tally”, “series tally”, “publishers scorecard”, and “raw data” — the descriptions are self-explanatory, but allow me to note here that the Scorecard is for all 5000+ volumes [example: Viz 625, Viz Ghibli Library 21, Viz Pulp 1, Viz Shojo Beat 254, Viz Shonen Jump 405, Viz Shonen Jump Advanced 180, Viz Signature 85] whereas I usually just calculate numbers for the top 500; also, the raw data is exactly that (I even left the typos in for you) — 37 weeks of rankings sorted by date and score: 61,589 line items.
Incidentally, these yearly rankings are the reason I need to buy a new laptop — the poor Dell 1501 gags every time I try to do analysis with this file and usually crashes (the program, not the system thankfully) about once each session. That, and I’d like to have a full keyboard (101 keys) because with the amount of data entry I do a numeric keypad would be a lovely thing to have. (And would make playing certain games much easier, too) (the 17” screen that goes along with the extended keyboard would also be nice).
I have no particular reason or excuse for posting the full data late; it just slipped my mind for a bit — but with Brian Hibbs recent post over on CBR with selections from the 2008 Bookscan Graphic Novel numbers this seemed like an apt occasion to play catch-up
…that and I’m already in the middle of reconciling my charts to his ;) so I thought it’d only be fair to post my full data set for everyone.
