Best pony, as told by Fimfiction

I recently did a text/metadata analysis over the entire set of Fimfiction stories, with lots of pretty charts. Check it out.

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[Bad Horse]

Chinchillax sent me here. Nice! I'll post a reply to reddit, I guess.
Meh, I'll compose it here and copy it there.

Let me know if you come across any others & I'll link them here.

I posted:

May 2012: Statistics on fimfiction authors. Notably this graph of views per author:
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June 2012: Does grammar matter? A study of story ratings versus number of grammar errors, as measured by a very poor automated grammar-checker. Summary: Grammatical errors affected story rating (lowering it by 1 standard deviation for 1 error every 100 words), but not whether the reader would keep reading.

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Reader retention rate versus grammatical errors per word.

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Rating versus grammatical errors per word.

July 2012: When do people read fimfiction?

Feb. 2014: Speech tag results. Counting the changing use of speech tags in English fiction over the centuries.

Aug. 2014: Stylometrics, Pros vs. fans, Factoring out setting & point of view

Oct. 2014: How popular is each character tag?

Nov, 2014: fimfiction writer attrition: 1/3 per year

Dec. 2014: Shakespeare / MLP Showdown results: MLP characters have more-distinctive vocabulary usage than Shakespeare characters.

July 2015: What tags correlate with popularity on fimfiction: Multiple linear regression on ratings and views vs. tags.