SoTW 1/31/10 – 2/6/10
Hello and welcome to Week 1 of the 2010-2011 Scent of The Year experiment. This first week has been all about finding the simplest way to process all the data, and to figure out what exactly we’ll be tracking over the next year.
So let’s take a step back, for the uninitiated. Scent of The Year (abbreviated to SoTY) is a yearlong exercise, reading the daily Scent of The Day threads and compiling all that data to one central spreadsheet, and seeing what conclusions there are to be drawn from it. You’ll be receiving regular updates for every week (SoTW), month (SoTM), quarter (SoTQ), half-year (SoTHY) and finally the big SoTY rundown, which will happen right around February 1st, 2011, to coincide with my other project, the lead-in to Basenotes March Madness.
Why, one could conceivably ask, would someone take on the tedious, dull, boring and exceptionally un-fun work of reading other people’s fragrance selections and type them into a book with other people’s fragrance selections? I’ve got two reasons, the first being I get restless without a good long-term project to work at, and the second being that I do get a lot of enjoyment out of playing with data, and seeing what can be really gathered from it.
I harbor no such illusions, however, that you enjoy statistics quite to the level that I do, so I’ll try to keep it interesting, entertaining even, but hopefully informative as well. If I start drifting off-course, please send me an email, PM, or tweet and let me know, or take me by the shoulders and gently steer me back in the right direction.
To work, then! The first step when you start collecting data is, obviously, determining exactly what you want to collect; the fragrances themselves, of course, … (More) “SoTW 1/31/10 – 2/6/10”