Statistics!

This post is proof that while you can take the boy out of science, you can’t take the anally-retentive urge to collect data and do stats on them out of the boy.

Half-way through my stint as a data entry clerk, I began to record how many forms I’d filled in each hour. I have 8 days’ data, and I’ve made a lovely 3D graph using Excel, isn’t it lovely?

This graph shows the number of forms entered onto the computer per hour over the course of 8 days. The two highest bars in pink are the result of my zen-like state of boredom, where I became a lean, mean, form-putting-into-the-computer machine. You can also see the weekend, represented by the flat bars, and the fact that I went home early on Friday each week. You can also see how the forms started to run out towards the end, I managed to clear the backlog for them, hurrah!

If you click on the image above, you can get the Excel spreadsheet with all the original data and the original graph. You can play around with the 3D graph and rotate it and stuff, it’s quite clever.

Now come on, this is good blogging! Where else do you get graphs of people’s boring work assignments?