Fic length: fic for gift exchanges versus fandom in general

[garonne]

Prompted by a comment by colebaltblue, I wanted to take a look at the difference between fic written for gift exchanges and fic in general.

I had to use fic posted to AO3, since it's pretty difficult/impossible to automatically scrape information about fic posted to LJ or scattered across many other websites. I did scrape livejournal once, to look at fic

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[scfrankles]

Interesting stuff.

I do love those last graphs where you can see the lines of 60s, drabbles, and 221Bs ^__^ Go, microfiction! *waves pompoms*

[garonne]

Yeah, I was pretty happy when I noticed those microfiction lines!

[okapi1895]

Nice. Also love the 221B line.

[garonne]

Also love the 221B line.

It's the coolest thing *g*

[colebaltblue]

This is AMAZING. Incredible! I love, love, love being able to visualize all this work and see how the exchanges shake out against larger fandom and then the breakdown within fandom itself. OMG, i'm still drooling days later.

[garonne]

Glad you like it! It was enormous fun to do. I'm certainly going to do some other similar stuff, now I have the script to scrape AO3.

[sanguinity]

Oh, neat. I'm a little sad you can't see the 221B line in Elementary; obvs. those of us who write them need to proselytize more.

Does the horizontal axis in the scatterplots have any meaning at all? I'd be curious to know if those scatterplots were sorted horizontally by pub. date (for example), if any kinds of patterns would emerge.

[garonne]

It's just the order in which AO3 returns search results, which was not chronological for the search terms I used, but seemed to be random. So I'm not sure why all the 60-word ACD fics seem to be towards the left hand side... I was puzzled by that! Next time I plan to scrape the date too, so I can sort them myself.