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dziadek1990 — MLP FIM S1 and S2 characters' screentime analysis
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Published: 2012-06-03 10:34:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 21864; Favourites: 181; Downloads: 16699
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EqD Article: www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06…Excel sheet download: (see link to seasons 1-3)
Depending on the number of characters present and frequency of shots' changes, analyzing each episode took from less than an hour up to three.
Estimated total time spent: 110 - 150 hours.
Margin of error:
Since the timers of the video players I used show only full seconds, I had to guess how the fractions of seconds were long when added up together.
On average, in each episode there may be a 10 second difference between the real screentime of a character and the screentime I calculated - but since it can be either more or less than reality, given the number of episodes and the fact that all of the characters are prone to this miscalculation, the overall screentime difference will probably be negligable.
Seasons 1-3 analysis: fav.me/d5kzo28
Ponyville's population analysis: fav.me/d4uyijp
Birth, pregnancy, coitus & death statistics: fav.me/d5fd4rz
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And AJ was called a background pony because she didn't have many episodes dedicated solely to her. Even when she was on the screen, she didn't do important stuff often. Her spotlight time was comparatively shorter to the rest's.
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The first thing here I saw with more downloads than views. You had one job, dziadek1990. And you did it. Amazing.
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Hehe, thanks for the info, I already read the description and found the link.
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Why does pinkie hold the record screen time in an episode? She peaks higher than twilight does.
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It seems that she had more screen time in "A Friend in Deed" than Twili had in any other episode. Understandable, as she is the only Mane 6 character involved in this story whereas Twilight always had to share the time with others in the other episodes.
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So YES! Twilight Sparkle won for being seen in a longest duration of time.
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Rainbow Dash got third.Not bad for my favorite pony.
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I think you got 2x12 and 2x13 or something like that mixed up.
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: My best pony has the lowest screen time among the rest aside from Spike!
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But look: Fluttershy has merely 30 seconds less of screentime than AJ - that's a little more than half a second per episode. The margin of error of my measurements is bigger. She still COULD have a second-last place amongst Mane 6.
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But if you take season three into account, she's way, way behind.
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: Please don't worry him like that.
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... but in a good way, right?
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My Little Pony Nerdyness level: ERROR! ERROR! SYSTEM WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN 30 SECONDS. 29... 28... 27...
Seriously though... NICE FREAKING JOB!
You should total be some kinda mathematician... or... something along those lines...
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Making graphs like this for me is easy... though I will have to deal with my laziness towards OTHER things, like writing fan-fics and analyses like the one I made on Ponyville's population - I am a REALLY lazy bum when it comes to stuf like that.
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Your welcome!
Keep doing what you do, " s'gonna gecha far, kiddo".
And remember that you shouldn't be lazy! That wont help you at all!
"Heh heh, look who's talking..."
SHUDDUP CYAN, I DIDN'T TELL YOU TO ADD ANYTHING TO MY MORAL LESSONS!
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Well, sprinkle with me with pasta and call me "gravy".
... whatever that means...
Anyways, I am constantly trying, but my friggin ADHD keeps being my enemy and-- OOH, SHINY! 8-D
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"8-D"
You DO realize what that looks like, right?
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... do you guys think ONLY about dirty things?
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... 'cause "8-D" looks like a happy alien when you turn it on its side!
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Awesome emoticon conversion strikes again...
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Yes, just like 8
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Thank you for this detailed analysis! I put the numbers to use with this little test I made (credits on the results page): [link]
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You silly! You wrote "dziadek990" instead of "dziadek1990" in the credits!
But that's, um... that's not a problem...
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Did I drop the hammer again?
Yes, you dodo! Lucky for you I was there to fix that mess!
Did somepony say mess? Do you want me to make some for you?! Please say yes!!!
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WOOOHOOO! This is going to be the messiest mess of all messiest messes EVER!
... Wait a minute. How can I be here AND there under the blanket at the same time? Am I you or you are me or neither of us are us or both of us are you and me or... or...
...
ARE YOU MY LONG-LOST TWIN SISTER???
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Hopefuly I will do more of those soon, because lately I am being FRIGGIN lazy. You have no idea how it is annoying. :\
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Sir... i think you might have a little too much free time but hey, nice job!
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Apologies, my last two links were the wrong way around.
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Hi, I work for the University of Southampton Open Data Service [link] . It's good to see people filling up important gaps in the world's data, but you've not placed any license on your data so it's difficult to reuse with confidence. See [link] -- I would suggest on of the data licenses listed at [link]
That said, we've done a bit of processing on your data to look for trends. We tried a line graph showing a 12 episode rolling average;
[link] but that's still hard to read, so plotting it as a stacked area graph works much better; you can see the change in relative screentime over time much better: [link]
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Kinda late, but finally changed the licence.
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how much time does Derpy have? what about background ponies?
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well 5% is still somethin
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Again, thank you for doing these. I wonder what Season Three is going to look like!
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Seriously, what do you nerds see in this math of yours anyway?
:\ Pinkster, just because you dislike math, doesn't mean everyone else does...
But still... could anypony explain to me what's so fun about math? It's all just numbers for Celestia's sake!
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Oh, cheer up, Fluttershy! We still love you!
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