More Shipping Charts

Well, it's been another nine months or so since I made my last shipping chart, so the time is ripe for a new chart. In the meantime, I've maintained a readership of just-under 20k words per day, bringing me to just above 19 million words of pony fics read. (Yes, I do read things other than pony fics; I'm currently reading Don Quixote.)

But let's review. First, maybe a year and a half ago, maybe longer (I don't remember exactly when I made it), there was the original chart:

For 36 characters, this chart worked pretty well. It's messy, but easily readable.

Then back in February I created the updated version, based on the Poincaire Disc Model:

With 42 characters, displaying data from 498 stories, this chart is still very readable and clean, in my opinion. When the time came to create my newest chart, I explored other styles, finally concluding that this method is in fact the best way to display large amounts of shipping data in a graphical form. (I have one other idea that I might try in the future.)

Finally, I updated my previous chart, and the result was this monstrosity:

Now I've got a full 60 characters to display, with data from just under 800 stories. (Okay, the kitchen sink probably shouldn't count, but I did just read a story (my 799th) that ships Cherry Jubilee, so I feel justified in claiming 60 characters.)

Umm, yeah. Wow. I'm not sure that I'd call that easily-readable anymore, unless the only thing that one is supposed to get out of it is, "Nikita has no life." But, let's run through the stats again, just for shits'n'giggles.

Top shipping pairs:
TwiDash - 84
AppleDash - 47
Twilestia - 34
OctiScratch - 28

Number of stories read: 799
Number of unique ships read: 211
Total number of ships read: 820
Number of words read: 19,024,037
Days as a member of fimfiction: 982
Average words read per day: 19,373

And just in case you were wondering what sort of system I use to track this stuff...