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It’s been pretty quite on the Microsoft bashing front lately since the great debacle that is Windows Vista was released to the public. I’m an avid follower of Slashdot.org, and there was a new post today that caught my eye.
Every Friday I will be posting five of the newest or coolest websites I’ve stumbled upon during my adventures through the Web. Here’s today’s:
Woot.com Deal of the DayPeople just can't seem to stop talking about Woot, on accounta we're so terrific and everything. Here's what they said this week.
As always, huge thanks to every single writer, blogger, and LiveJournaler linked to above. And if you've seen us somewhere unexpected, by all means, share the link.
If you’re one of those number-chasers who pore over our daily product stats, you’re in good company. The popular (and awesome) consumer-rights blog The Consumerist seized on our Woots Per Capita Map to get a quick read on the economic impact of Hurricane Gustav. They noticed Louisiana was much darker on September 2 than it had been on August 2, and concluded that Pelican Staters have better things to do right now than buy cheap SD cards online.
In all seriousness, our sympathies are with anybody displaced by Gustav or the other storms in the Gulf this season. We won’t take your inactivity personally. Some things in life are more important than – yes – even Woot.
But we thought it would be interesting to refine The Consumerists’s quick ‘n’ dirty assessment with a bit more detail. We’ve got all these stats laying around, so we might as well do something with them.
Louisiana represents 1.53% of the U.S. population, and usually a somewhat lower percentage of Woot orders, like its neighbors Mississippi and Alabama. On the day the Consumerist chose for their “before” image, it just so happened that we were selling the Cummins P2400 Onan 2000 Watt Homesite Generator – exactly the kind of thing Louisianans would be stocking up on with storm season coming. That day, Louisiana accounted for 2.51% of Woot sales, well above their usual. More typically, from July 20 to August 30 (that’s 116,584 total sales), 0.94% of purchases came from Louisiana, somewhat below their percentage of the population. That’s why their state is darker than average on this map for July 20 through August 30:
As you can see, they weren’t way up in the rankings to begin with. But in the first five days after the evacuation order was issued on August 31 (45,695 total sales), Louisiana sales plummeted to just 0.32% of all Woot sales, a 66% drop. And Louisiana was plunged figuratively into Woot darkness:
So despite the “generator effect”, The Consumerist’s inital analysis holds up pretty well under a broader examination of sales. And that’s the Gustav story through a glass, wootly. We invite our fellow amateur statisticians out there to share other interesting insights from their armchair Woot analyses (like when we noticed the Confederacy apparently hasn’t quite forgiven Lincoln yet).
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