Hi, on 2006-07-15 10:43 Scott W Brim said the following: > Can you normalize like this? 1523 drafts have "authors" from North > America, and so on. If a draft has three authors from North America > and two from Europe, is the draft counted five times or two times? No, you can't really normalize this way, as far as I can see. But luckily the desired data are available from the same source (Jari's http://www.arkko.com/tools/authorstats.html). These are the numbers I should have posted the first time - I guess I was a bit too tired... For authors of active drafts, these are the numbers as of July 7, 2006, according to http://www.arkko.com/tools/stats/contdistr.html : # 1164 authors (51.28%) come from North America. # 573 authors (25.24%) come from Europe. # 390 authors (17.18%) come from Asia. # 24 authors (1.06%) come from Australia. # 4 authors (0.18%) come from Africa. # 2 authors (0.09%) come from OTHER. # 7 authors (0.31%) come from South America. # unknown author location for 106 authors (4.67%). Please note that there are large amounts of heuristics involved in extracting the underlying author data, and no way of knowing the accuracy, short of manually assembling the data from all active drafts. There's more about this on the referenced tool page. For the current discussion the figures should give a reasonable indication of geographic distribution, though. Henrik > swb > > On 07/15/2006 00:18 AM, Noel Chiappa allegedly wrote: >> > From: Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> > (Note that since drafts can have multiple authors, the sum of the >> > following percentages are more than 100%), >> >> > # 1523 drafts (73.08%) have authors from North America. >> > # 1116 drafts (53.55%) have authors from Europe. >> > # 417 drafts (20.01%) have authors from Asia. >> > # 33 drafts (1.58%) have authors from Australia. >> > # 9 drafts (0.43%) have authors from South America. >> > # 3 drafts (0.14%) have authors from Africa. >> > # 1 drafts (0.05%) have authors from OTHER. >> >> Renormalizing percentages so that they sum to 100%, we get: >> >> 49.09% of authors are from North America. >> 35.97% of authors are from Europe. >> 13.44% of authors are from Asia. >> 1.06% of authors are from Australia >> .28% of authors are from South America. >> .09% of authors are from Africa. >> .03% of authors are from OTHER. >> >> Sounds like out of every 6 IETF's, one should be in Asia, two in Europe, and >> the other three in North America: NA/Europe/NA/Europe/NA/Asia spreads things >> out evenly. >> >> Noel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf