Two Years In

Hello everybody,

It’s Michael, and today’s post will be a little different. Why would that be?

Well, today is the blog’s two year anniversary. Yup-hard to believe I launched this blog two years ago. And harder to believe that I was still living at my childhood home in Miami Springs, FL when I got the idea to launch this blog.

Just like I did for the Thank You For 1 Year post I wrote for the blog’s first anniversary, this post will be my annual appreciation/thank-you post to all of the amazing readers of this blog.

So, where do I begin? How about a little by-the-numbers rundown of this blog’s content?

Since the launch of the blog, we’ve had:

• 71 posts (with this post being the 71st)
• 19 R lessons
• 9 R analyses
• 15 Java lessons
• 3 Java program demos
• 10 Python lessons
• 1 Python program demo
• and 10 MySQL lessons (though it’s been ages since I’ve posted any SQL content)

Impressive, right? Now, it may surprise you to learn that this blog has been viewed all around the world, not just in the US. Let’s see where in the world has this blog been viewed:

• the United States
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Saudi Arabia
• the United Kingdom
• Brazil
• the Philippines
• India
• France
• Italy
• New Zealand
• Russia

Well, looks like this blog has captured the attention of readers worldwide. Now, let’s see what the top 5 most viewed posts are, starting with my most viewed to date (I provided links to each post):

1. R Lesson 1: Basic R commands
2. R Analysis 9: ANOVA, K-Means Clustering & COVID-19
3. R Analysis 8: Linear Regression & the Top 200 Albums of the 2010s
4. Java Lesson 11: Method Making
5. MySQL Lesson 10: Creating Views

It looks like my very first lesson is the most viewed post to date. Honestly, I thought that my post on COVID-19 would take the top spot, given that it was my first post about a current event AND that the COVID-19 pandemic is still going on.

Now, let’s do a top 5 most viewed posts year-by-year breakdown (links provided to all posts):

2018 top 5:

1. R Lesson 1: Basic R commands
2. MySQL Lesson 10: Creating Views
3. R Lesson 4: Logistic Regression Models
4. MySQL Lesson 1: Building an ER Diagram
5. MySQL Lesson 3: Intro to Querying

2019 top 5:

1. Java Lesson 11: Method Making
2. R Lesson 15: Decision Trees
3. R Lesson 16: R Loops
4. R Lesson 14: Random Forests
5. Java Lesson 1: Introduction to Java & “Hello World”

2020 top 5:

1. R Analysis 9: ANOVA, K-Means Clustering & COVID-19
2. R Analysis 8: Linear Regression & the Top 200 Albums of the 2010s
3. Java Lesson 15: Enums
4. Python Lesson 7: Lists & Tuples
5. Python Program Demo 1: Using the Jupyter Notebook

Looks like my R posts have the most popular, as the R posts take up 7 of the spots on these lists. Also, my COVID-19 R analysis is the most viewed post to date in 2020 (which isn’t surprising given the current pandemic situation).

This blog has certainly come a long way since its inception two years ago. But none of these amazing stats would be possible without you-the readers. You come from all over the world, but you all come to this blog for the same purpose-to learn-and I appreciate all of you. Your support motivates me to create more great content for guys to read-and don’t worry, I’ve got years of content to come. I’m not ending this blog anytime soon.

Happy 2nd birthday Michael’ Analytics Blog! Looking forward to another great year of programming content!

As always, thanks for reading!

Michael

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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