Ratebeer user growth over time

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Message puzzl beers 3258 º places 138 º 16:16 Tue 8/22/2017 Joet’s post about RB’s fastest growth ever got me thinking: how fast has Ratebeer grown over time? Thankfully, Ratebeer’s new users are sequentially labeled with their user number, and join dates are publicly exposed, making fetching the data pretty trivial. I wrote a simple bash script to pull every 1000 users, parse out their join date, and then graphed the resulting data. The Y axis is the total amount of users, and the X axis the date from user #1000 until today. Each vertical line is a data point, which, when we have enough, help form an accurate graph. Takeaways: * User growth rate was extremely flat from 2006 through 2012 * Growth cranked up hardcore at the start of 2012 * ...and then in mid 2012, briefly went through the roof. Probably a bug? * The growth rate then flattened again, where it stayed for 4 years until the ABInBev acquisition was announced. As they say, all advertising is good advertising: even bad news --- Of course, this is only total registered number of users, which is not a particularly meaningful metric. It would be possible to estimate WAP (weekly active participants) and MAP (monthly) over time via various accessible feeds, but it would be enormously taxing on Ratebeer’s servers, requiring millions of requests, something Joe probably doesn’t want me to do.
Message SarkyNorthener beers 5200 º places 142 º 16:20 Tue 8/22/2017 A lot of Active users, including myself Joined in 2012. I wonder why there was such a lift that year in not only quantity of users, but quality? Great work by the way.
Message tderoeck P beers 14777 º places 247 º 16:21 Tue 8/22/2017 As an IT-guy and statistics lover (aren’t we all), I find this post awesome. :-)
Message j12601 P beers 14608 º places 583 º 16:21 Tue 8/22/2017 Very neat. I remember you mentioning this last weekend, cool to see the finished product. Xpost on r/dataisbeautiful ?

Message puzzl beers 3258 º places 138 º 16:22 Tue 8/22/2017 here’s the data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/157x6hzFHrcn3z5c1FDJ_H-2cYNNVYwftIAuBpHlkWYE/edit?usp=sharing
Message CH-303 P beers 4551 º places 137 º 16:48 Tue 8/22/2017 interesting data!
Message ebone1988 beers 2504 º places 24 º 17:08 Tue 8/22/2017 I’m in the 2012 group too
Message SarkyNorthener beers 5200 º places 142 º 17:16 Tue 8/22/2017 Originally posted by ebone1988 I’m in the 2012 group too As I said. Quality.

Message LazyPyro beers 8221 º places 63 º 18:41 Tue 8/22/2017 Thanks for this. I asked Joe to post graphs and/or raw numbers in that thread so I’m glad someone else has gone to the effort to do this. I absolutely love looking at stuff like this, I find it fascinating.
Message TheHOFF43 P beers 2045 º places 169 º 19:30 Tue 8/22/2017 Originally posted by SarkyNorthener A lot of Active users, including myself Joined in 2012. I wonder why there was such a lift that year in not only quantity of users, but quality? Great work by the way. 2012 was sheer quality. Amazing to have someone like me in that year.
Message SarkyNorthener beers 5200 º places 142 º 19:42 Tue 8/22/2017 Originally posted by TheHOFF43 Originally posted by SarkyNorthener A lot of Active users, including myself Joined in 2012. I wonder why there was such a lift that year in not only quantity of users, but quality? Great work by the way. 2012 was sheer quality. Amazing to have someone like me in that year. Seriously. The class of 2012 is epic. Me, you, ebone1988, RichtheVillan, Theydon Bois and many more.