Linden Lab reaches into the future for statistics
provides a number of data sources for statistical data on Second Life's grid population and concurrency and so forth. I've been collecting and storing that data for a long time and producing all manner of graphs. It provides interesting insights and allows for trend predictions and all that. When it's working, that is.
The data for active users logged in for the last 60 days (an active user is a user that has spent at least 60 minutes online during that 60 day period) has not updated for almost 9 days (it normally updates at midnight each night). This-afternoon, the feed updated with a new figure - but it's dated in the future - at midnight tonight SLT (US Pacific time).
Could this potentially put us statistical pundits out of business? I mean, if they can publish figures from the future, that would certainly put the kibosh on any need to do curve-fitting and predictions, right? ;)
