tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post8181017909109208581..comments2024-02-20T16:10:31.948-07:00Comments on First Nerve: Perfume by the Numbers: Seasonal Search Engine ActivityAvery Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-64761399012649159082010-02-03T20:45:34.919-07:002010-02-03T20:45:34.919-07:00Xer Etéreo:
Welcome to the smelly blogosphere
A...Xer Etéreo:<br /><br />Welcome to the smelly blogosphere <br /><br />And thanks for the kind comments.<br /><br />I generated the graphs by exporting the Google Trend data into MS Excel. Feel free to use with attribution and a link back to First Nerve (the statistics gnomes in the sub-basement love to see their work cited!).Avery Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-1732555120680898622010-02-02T18:39:14.605-07:002010-02-02T18:39:14.605-07:00Hello Avery,
I am Xer Etereo (My real name is Isa...Hello Avery,<br /><br />I am Xer Etereo (My real name is Isaías, but lets keep that a secret), and I am one of the few people who have a blog about perfumes in Spanish. <br />http://enfragante.blogspot.com/ (ignore the couple of posts on proper clothing). It is still very young and very amateurish, but I hope I can make it better. <br />I own your book in both print and audio version and some of the information you share on this blog is pure gold. I would love to share some of it to my fellow Spanish-speaking enthusiasts, always giving due credit of course.<br />I do not know how you obtained those graphs, but I would like ask for your permision to use them along with some bits of info I found while reading your blog. May I?<br />By the way, I much prefer the english title over the "Wisdom of the nose" translation.<br /><br />Cheers.Xer Etéreohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13277167163531329467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-61995795766927951792010-01-04T10:56:18.975-07:002010-01-04T10:56:18.975-07:00That's clever, as usual, Avery, and fun to tak...That's clever, as usual, Avery, and fun to take further...<br /><br />I just tried running Google trends on the word <i>stink</i> and it shows that September is the stinkiest month.<br /><br />Searches for <i>lavendar</i> peak during the first half of July each year. <br /><br /><i>Taste</i> is queried most often during the last week in June every year. I wonder why?<br /><br />Searches for <i>medicine</i> decrease just before Christmas, which might explain why the days after Christmas have the highest mortality rates. <br /><br /><i>Obesity</i> is a hot topic in the spring and fall but not summer or at Christmas. <i>Exercise</i> shows a clear New Year's resolution effect.Mike Tordoffhttp://www.monell.org/faculty/people/tordoffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-45099688681023474012010-01-03T15:25:11.586-07:002010-01-03T15:25:11.586-07:00I do love it when you get all charts and graphs on...I do love it when you get all charts and graphs on us.<br /><br />And now I know way more about Mother's Day across the globe than I had ever thought possible.Nathan Branchhttp://www.nathanbranch.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-42104050361488886032010-01-02T20:38:22.839-07:002010-01-02T20:38:22.839-07:00Christopher:
Thanks for bringing me up to speed o...Christopher:<br /><br />Thanks for bringing me up to speed on the liturgical calendar. I had no idea.<br /><br />I went back and examined the USA and UK data more closely. The Christmas and Valentine’s Day peaks coincide perfectly but there is nothing in the UK data corresponding to the US Mother’s Day peak. I was too hasty in eye-balling the graphs.<br /><br />But then I checked the Laetare Sunday dates for 2004 to 2009 (they range from March 2 to March 22) against the raw UK data. In each case there is a small blip in traffic the preceding week.<br /><br />So there is no pre-Mother’s Day peak in the UK but there is a faintly detectable blip before Mothering Sunday. There you go.<br /><br />I’ll update the main post with a new graphic.Avery Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-89541110752426192642010-01-02T19:10:57.740-07:002010-01-02T19:10:57.740-07:00Interesting! But here's a confounder: Mother...Interesting! But here's a confounder: Mothering Sunday in England (presume same for whole UK) is not in May. It corresponds to Simnel Sunday - 4th Sunday in Lent (always the middle Sunday), so falls on a different date each year, but always in March/April. Perhaps the UK population is so small as to make not much of a blip at those times. Don't know if this would make the May blip in UK inexplicable - giddiness of spring and longer days, perhaps?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18107637337384810066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-15131226770886277222010-01-02T13:47:28.357-07:002010-01-02T13:47:28.357-07:00Ed C:
Dude, that was fast!
Given my low regard f...Ed C:<br /><br />Dude, that was fast!<br /><br />Given my low regard for all things "wiki" I double checked and confirmed that <i>Fête des Mères</i> falls on the last Sunday of May excepting Pentecost when it pushes into June.<br /><br />I re-checked the raw data. The French Mother's Day dates line up perfectly with the French search peaks--each precedes the holiday by one week.<br /><br />Nice catch!Avery Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-74200818307245684802010-01-02T12:24:54.781-07:002010-01-02T12:24:54.781-07:00Very interesting. I wasn't aware of this tool...Very interesting. I wasn't aware of this tool.<br /><br />WikiAnswers says,<br />"Mothers Day in France is the last Sunday of the May unless Pentecost is on the same day, in which case it is the first Sunday in June. [In 2009 it was] June 7th because Pentecost is on May 31."<br />In your graph it looks like the French peak falls about that much after the US peak.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02972185592622266459noreply@blogger.com