Crowd-sourcing HD smoochfest: Progress Report #1

[snowgall]

In case you didn't know, we have started a new crowd-sourcing project! This time we are gathering data on all fics posted to hd_smoochfest from 2009-2014. Once again, the initial goal is to get more information to find out Who tops more?, but there's no reason these datasets couldn't be used to answer any number of interesting fandomstats questions in the future.

Background: Inspired by the comments on my original Who Tops More post, I decided to try running the same analysis just on the fics written for the hd_fan_fair fest from 2009-2014. Crowd-sourcing that data was a smashing success and you can read about the results here.

Once again I have set up a public Google spreadsheet where anyone who wants to can help fill in the gaps in the data. It's actually at the same URL as the first dataset, just in a new sheet beneath it. (Note: my original post suggesting the crowd-sourcing is f-locked to hide the spreadsheet URL from vandals, but if anyone is interested in helping with this project, just PM me so I can send you the link).

There are 348 fics from six years of Smoochfest now listed in the table (with huge thanks to cagnurit for helping add over 200 fics to my original list!) When I opened the sheet for crowd-sourcing 4 days ago, we still needed top/bottom data on 147 fics rated R or NC-17. Since then, frnklymrshnkly, gracerene, khalulu, lordhellebore, and nia_kantorka have whittled that number down to 128 (also adding data on several low-rated fics, and timeframe and theme data as well). As always, if I inadvertently left out anyone who contributed, please let me know so I can thank you.

Note that the dataset for HD Smoochfest is one and a half times larger than the dataset was for HD fan-fair (348 fics vs. 231) so this will be a commensurately larger project. But I know we can do it! The more people who contribute (the more 'crowd'-like we are) the less any one person has to do.

So even if you can only add one piece of information to our dataset, that is valuable and worthwhile. Just take a look at the spreadsheet (find the link in this post, or PM me) and enter data for any fics you may have read; every contribution is greatly appreciated.

**If you add or change any data, it is helpful to leave a note in the "data entry by" column so I know who to thank and what has been added. You can also add a comment right in the same cell if there's data you disagree with. Just highlight anything you do so I can see it and make a note of it. Thanks so much for all the help so far!

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More in this series:
Crowd-sourcing Smoochfest Proposal - Spreadsheet link (f-locked)
Progress Report #1
Progress Report #2 - Ratings chart
Progress Report #3 - Nearly There!
Progress Report #4 - Final data double-check!
Who Tops More in HD-smoochfest: Final Results

Comments

[khalulu]

Have been skimming through some with little data or low word-count - the fic "Hooded" has the wrong url link. (Goes to "Trust Exercises" which is below it in the chart. Was afraid to change that myself.)

[snowgall]

Thanks for the heads up! I'll go and see if I can fix that now. The URL field is a little tricky because I did some things to make it sort nicely :)

[snowgall]

Fixed. Let me know if you see any other URL errors.

You can, of course, fix any errors yourself if you like, but I do like getting the heads up because I keep a backup copy of the data on my laptop (in a different format) and I try to keep it in synch. If something innocuous gets changed, I might not notice, and might not adjust it in the backup. (Yes, I know that there are easier ways to back things up, and I do that too, but my fic database is a larger animal that doesn't play as well with Google docs) :)

So thanks so much for letting me know!

[khalulu]

"Trend-setting and Trust" links instead to "Unlocking Harry's Dress Code"

I'm just getting the word-counts entered for ones that don't have that, so anyone who wants to look at one knows what they're getting into.

I almost never remember who tops so I can't enter anything from memory!

I'd rather not try to fix the links... leaving that part to you!

[cagnurit.livejournal.com]

Thank you for pointing out the URL mistakes.

I guess I messed up a lot when adding the links :< So whenever you see an error, please correct and boldface it, if you don't mind? :)

Really, thanks again <3

[snowgall]

You didn't mess up a lot - don't be so hard on yourself! You made one mistake out of like 200 entries. I would have been surprised if you *hadn't* made at least one mistake. Goodness knows I made several myself :)

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