Statistically Speaking

So here we are again. Back so soon? These posts will make weeks feel like days, and they say time flies when you're having ...

Hello and welcome to Week 1 of the 2010-2011 Scent of The Year experiment. This first week has been all about finding the simplest way to process all the data, and to figure out what exactly we'll be tracking over the next year.

So let's take a step back, for the uninitiated. Scent of The Year (abbreviated to SoTY) is a yearlong exercise, reading the daily Scent of The Day threads on the forums and compiling all that data to one central spreadsheet, and seeing what conclusions there are to be drawn from it. You'll be receiving regular updates for every week (SoTW), month (SoTM), quarter (SoTQ), half-year (SoTHY) and finally the big SoTY rundown, which will happen right around February 1st, 2011, to coincide with my other project, the lead-in to Basenotes March Madness.
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