Reliablility to me is a slightly subjective thing, I think.
Pros
- Underestimates instead of overestimates the data
- Has Percentages
Cons
- Has the data since Aug 10, 2013 (just barely less than half the data Sirisian has)
- Data is not as easily accessible to public (I cannot pull data to do DFTs)
Pros
- Has been around longer and has 2x as much data as others. Sirisian at one point even had data from when the PS2 launched, but he took it down because trolls were abusing it.
- Data is easily accessible to the public (I can actually pull the data myself)
Cons
- Includes the API crashes that occured during the spring and summer of 2013
- Typically overestimates the data because it measures every 1/2 hour - hour.
Now both show population figures of the different servers and factions. However, both still suffer from problems with API is down or crashes. To explain what I mean, look at this picture here of RSNC:
There is a big hole around September. If I look at the data, I pulled from Sirisian:
There is the exact same big hole around the 4500th hr of the game or 9/3/2013.
In fact, RSNC if it started a month or two earlier would have run into the same bizzare API error population spikes that we can see on Sirisian. Sirisian actually mentions these lightly in this statement:
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Hover over the line segment for values. Some data may be missing due to the API being down. This is represented by straight lines.
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I hope this gives you a better perspective on the two population graphs. Also, do you know how to contact the person who does RSNC? I would need access to his data in some kind of table or html form if he would like me to analyze it like I did Sirsians:
Fast Fourier Transform plot of the population's frequency spectrum
Then, again I am not sure if knowing the frequency of players logging in/out of the game is useful to people XD. I just did it to practice some of the stuff I learned in college. -_-;
2014-01-08, 06:28 PM
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