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1. David Stager on June 21st, 2011 at 5:30 pm

   Tweet of the year!

2. David Stager on June 21st, 2011 at 9:20 pm

   Oh, and I was bored so I wanted to rank the different clusterflock categories in order of frequency, and see how “boners” stacked up. I learned a whole lot about Excel’s ranking function (in particular how to work around its frustratingly unorthodox method of ranking ties) as well as a new cure for boredom. I won’t list all 219 categories, but here are the top-five rankings for the most and least frequently used categories as of this post:

   Most Used
   1st – uncategorized (1789)
   2nd – video (1650)
   3rd – music (1631)
   4th – history (1528)
   5th – photography (1523)

   Least Used
   1st – 3-way tie between boogers, fish poop, and honk (2)
   2nd – 2-way tie between sleep and tits (4)
   3rd – watercolour (7)
   4th – 2-way tie between clusterflock book club and Meet the Apostles (9)
   5th – illustration (11)

   FYI: boners came in 120th out of 177 (tagged 133 times)

3. Rick Neece on June 21st, 2011 at 9:28 pm

   “Meet the Apostles” is an underused category.

4. Cindy Scroggins on June 21st, 2011 at 9:37 pm

   I’m right proud that dumbass texan spanish is holding its own.

5. Joel Bernstein on June 21st, 2011 at 11:25 pm

   “Boogers, fish poop, and honk” is my Crosby, Stills and Nash cover band.

6. Amanda Mae on June 22nd, 2011 at 3:57 am

   LIST ALL OF THEM, DAVID!

7. David Stager on June 22nd, 2011 at 8:12 am

   Okay, here is the complete (slightly out-of-date) list of the rankings:

   1 uncategorized (1789)
   2 video (1650)
   3 music (1631)
   4 history (1528)
   5 photography (1523)
   6 art (1414)
   7 animals (1392)
   8 technology (1239)
   9 movies (1168)
   10 observations (1114)
   11 science (1088)
   12 politics (1085)
   13 internet (1078)
   14 books (961)
   15 humans (956)
   16 language (938)
   17 culture (926)
   18 design (885)
   19 food (875)
   20 international (831)
   21 religion (814)
   22 adventure (784)
   23 government (738)
   24 economics (716)
   25 aesthetics (705)
   26 photographs (687)
   27 dear clusterflock (647)
   28 pop culture (634)
   29 travel (624)
   30 news (620)
   31 memory (618)
   32 environment (616)
   33 anecdotes (612)
   34 psychology (600)
   35 from the comments (569)
   36 literature (554)
   37 cars (547)
   38 writing (529)
   39 awesome (516)
   40 crime (508)
   41 relationships (506)
   42 beauty (504)
   43 television (500)
   44 family (496)
   45 web sites (495)
   46 odd (492)
   47 sex (485)
   48 sports (458)
   49 humor (452)
   49 society (452)
   50 health (451)
   51 comedy (443)
   52 announcements (432)
   53 business (425)
   54 education (424)
   55 vehicles (415)
   56 nature (408)
   57 advice (404)
   58 architecture (390)
   58 etc. (390)
   59 law (387)
   60 entertainment (379)
   61 consciousness (377)
   62 alcohol (361)
   63 how to (358)
   64 mental health (350)
   65 friends (343)
   66 fiction (342)
   67 advertising (329)
   68 fashion (322)
   69 found (318)
   70 products (317)
   71 games (316)
   72 journalism (305)
   73 etiquette (289)
   73 poetry (289)
   74 cities (284)
   74 self-help (284)
   75 clothes (279)
   75 war (279)
   76 sexuality (274)
   77 gender (272)
   78 Meet the Flockers (254)
   79 satire (249)
   80 philosophy (246)
   81 branding (245)
   82 quotes (238)
   83 love (237)
   84 drugs (236)
   85 wisdom (231)
   86 sketch (230)
   87 marketing (228)
   88 parenting (227)
   89 help me jesus (224)
   89 tips and tricks (224)
   90 space (223)
   91 poop (218)
   92 anthropology (208)
   93 intelligence (198)
   94 pets (186)
   95 public policy (184)
   96 texas (183)
   97 archives (176)
   98 objects (169)
   98 typography (169)
   99 local (165)
   100 interviews (161)
   101 fuck all y’all (158)
   102 mysticism (157)
   103 cooking (154)
   104 assholes (151)
   105 calm the fuck down (150)
   106 anger (148)
   106 dance (148)
   106 theater (148)
   107 opinion (142)
   108 death (141)
   109 you’re welcome (140)
   110 magazines (139)
   111 information architecture (138)
   111 software (138)
   112 metaphysics (132)
   113 archaeology (131)
   113 sociology (131)
   113 this is why we can’t have nice things (131)
   114 jokes (126)
   115 shouldness (125)
   116 geography (123)
   117 urban legends (122)
   118 audio (121)
   118 ethics (121)
   119 insects (120)
   120 big board (113)
   120 boners (113)
   121 furniture (111)
   122 discovered (110)
   123 euphemisms (109)
   124 crafts (107)
   124 libraries (107)
   125 translation (106)
   126 nineteenth century (sorry cindy)™ (105)
   127 astronomy (100)
   127 balls (100)
   128 race (99)
   129 commercials (94)
   129 spirituality (94)
   130 publishing (90)
   130 sisyphean (90)
   131 fail (89)
   132 museums (87)
   133 plants (85)
   133 solitary bees (85)
   133 taxidermy (85)
   134 aphorisms (83)
   134 helmet food (83)
   135 teaching (81)
   136 stupidity (80)
   137 twitter (79)
   138 grammar (76)
   138 non-anecdotes (76)
   139 mystery (70)
   140 math (67)
   141 linguistics (66)
   141 recipes (66)
   142 categories (63)
   143 biology (59)
   143 piss (59)
   143 the world come of age (59)
   144 dreams (53)
   145 childhood (57)
   145 not satire (57)
   146 brain damage (56)
   146 interior design (56)
   146 pork (56)
   147 sound (55)
   148 no shit (54)
   149 nutrition (52)
   150 let’s go drink (50)
   150 radio (50)
   151 1979 (48)
   151 yep (48)
   152 graphic design (47)
   153 gratitude (46)
   154 vegetables (44)
   155 randy taylor (42)
   156 uncomfortable truth (41)
   157 cosmetics (40)
   158 surprise (39)
   159 gazpacho (36)
   160 unbearable pain (35)
   161 recommended (34)
   162 the future (30)
   162 vomit (30)
   163 gardening (27)
   163 yoga (27)
   164 spilled coffee (25)
   165 farts (21)
   166 civics (20)
   166 work (20)
   167 celebrity (19)
   168 comics (18)
   169 clusterflock interviews (17)
   169 toys (17)
   170 from the archives (16)
   171 cunt (15)
   171 dumbass texan spanish (15)
   172 idiots (13)
   172 jewelry (13)
   172 podcasts (13)
   172 smells (13)
   173 illustration (11)
   174 clusterflock book club (9)
   174 Meet the Apostles (9)
   175 watercolour (7)
   176 sleep (4)
   176 tits (4)
   177 boogers (2)
   177 fish poop (2)
   177 honk (2)

8. David Stager on June 22nd, 2011 at 8:29 am

   I’m going to go out on a limb here, but if you look at the rankings for poetry, sexuality and gender (a respectable 73rd, 76th and 77th place, respectively) vs. the rankings for balls, farts and tits (127th, 165th and 176th place) I think it’s safe to say that clusterflock is not a boy’s club. But you guys already knew that.

9. Lester Albatross on June 22nd, 2011 at 9:28 am

   Hey David, thanks for doing this. Could you do a pivot chart that shows the usage of each category by flocker? I’d also like to see a breakdown of usage by gender and age. Let’s really dig into the data.

   Cindy has experience in making charts and graphs. She’s a good resource if you need help.

10. Joel Bernstein on June 22nd, 2011 at 9:29 am

    ‘Tits’ doesn’t count; I just convinced Sheila to add it a few weeks ago.

11. The “Very Reverend” take note Michael Smith on June 22nd, 2011 at 9:38 am

    Joel has a point. Though, I don’t remember that a lot of convincing was required.

12. Joel Bernstein on June 22nd, 2011 at 9:41 am

    I’m very persuasive.

13. Cindy Scroggins on June 22nd, 2011 at 9:58 am

    Yeah David, great work, but we need an impact analysis that takes into account the length of time each category has been in use. No rush–I won’t have time to go over it until tomorrow.

14. Deron Bauman on June 22nd, 2011 at 10:00 am

    Tag team.

15. Cindy Scroggins on June 22nd, 2011 at 10:00 am

    uh-huh

16. David Stager on June 22nd, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Statistics are fun. I too would like to delve deeper. I’ll send you the spreadsheet over facebook, Cindy.

17. Cindy Scroggins on June 22nd, 2011 at 11:08 am

    That’s the kind of attitude that will take you far in this business, Stager. Good job.

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