Grid growth and Incident reports oh and Tyche Shepherd rocks

Thanks to the wonders of Tyche Shepherd, Queen of the stats I can report that the grid has grown by forty five regions this week, This information can be found on Tyche's thread over at SL Universe, here. One day, when I find some time I'll try and work out how many weeks the grid has been growing for, because the trend is most definitely upward. To quote Tyche (because copying and pasting is quicker for me than copying and typing): "Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29498 ( 23894 private estates & 5604 Linden owned)". I work this out to a ratio of mainland to estate sims of 1:4.26 . I could be wrong, it's late!

Now a trick with stats is to not present them to your boss as text only, because that doesn't look good when they present the stats to their bosses on an interactive whiteboard, you need to throw in a pie chart or a bar graph, put the company logo in there somewhere too.

Tyche also has information on her grid survey page where you can browse for regions, removed regions, active regions, there's a lot of information and breakdowns of regions types, mature, adult, PG.Using the search you don't even need to put in a full name of a region, partial results will return sims with those letters in them, so for example if I put in "Dee" I find several sims with the letters Dee, for example Aberdeen, Azure Deepwater and the one I'm looking for, which is simply DEE and if I click on the link for DEE, I find further information such as world coordinates, maturity rating, whether it's an estate or mainland sim, a SLURL link and rather impressively, a link to any snapzilla photos taken on the sim. You may want to check your own sim out here and see whose been taking tourist photos!

Tyche's stats also give us the bad news about which sims have left the grid, and this week it's my sad duty to report that "FREE SEX" is no more. I'm sure many will be disappointed, especially the corporates!

However Tyche doesn't just deal with land, she also has stats regarding incident reports, which can be found here. Now what I like about this is that you can search by text, so I type into the search box: "Terms of Service: Identity Confirmation", I then see there have been fifteen such violations listed since November 8th, which seems rather worryingly high to me.

Then you can look at the published charts, which can be found here. Now this is great, from the dropdown menu I can select options such as the top twenty incident types or the busiest regions for incident types.

Now you may find this all boring, I find it fascinating but stats aren't for everyone but I like what Tyche is doing here, indeed Tyche Shepherd rocks!