Character Frequency Infographic

GeckoZY · Post by **GeckoZY** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:37 am

Hello guys! I kinda made a character frequency chart of pretty much most of the Housepets character. I'm hoping to add more details and stuff to it in the future. ^^
The colored bars represent calendar years, from 2008 till 2015. This one shows everyone who appears more than 18 times (the image is a bit too long XD).
Well, I hope you guys like it.

EDIT:
Note: These kinda counts the guest comics too. Different Versions of Characters are kinda separate (like puppy Peanut, imagine king or a better example, Joel)
Here's an alternate infographic colored based on an HP year (June to May) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/453 ... y2-hpy.png
And the same one for the earlier and later half.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:11 pm

Wow, great job!

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 2:03 pm

Peanut and Grape own the show!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:14 pm

Looks very nicely done! Though is there a key to the colors so we know which year is which?

Post by **Obbl** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:28 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Looks very nicely done! Though is there a key to the colors so we know which year is which?

It'd just be in order, right? 2008-2015

Thank you, Gecko, for uploading the mod's "Weapon Against Silly People Complaining About the Lack of 'Original Characters'" or WASPCALOC for short

I really like infographics. Probably too much for my own good.

I can't even get this message posted cause I'm so busy looking at it

Saturn381 · Post by **Saturn381** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:40 pm

Great job, Gecko!

Cesco · Post by **Cesco** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 5:34 pm

Nice, someone thought of this.

Very good work, Gecko!

Now could be done a graph from it, with the top 20 characters.

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 5:48 pm

Bino gets more screen time than the main antagonist? huh. bet he's proud of that.

SuperStar · Post by **SuperStar** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:15 pm

Buster wrote:Bino gets more screen time than the main antagonist? huh. bet he's proud of that.

But don't you see? Bino is the main antagonist, we just don't know that yet. Remember, Miles called him a "god trapped in a mortal shell", so that obviously means that Bino well eventually resume his role as a demi god and become the true main antagonist.

GeckoZY · Post by **GeckoZY** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:52 pm

Obbl wrote:
Amazee Dayzee wrote:Looks very nicely done! Though is there a key to the colors so we know which year is which?
It'd just be in order, right? 2008-2015

Thank you, Gecko, for uploading the mod's "Weapon Against Silly People Complaining About the Lack of 'Original Characters'" or WASPCALOC for short
I really like infographics. Probably too much for my own good. I can't even get this message posted cause I'm so busy looking at it

I kinda have a breakdown of earlier half and later half at the links below, it kinda shows something more. >;P

Oh, and made a GIF. It shows character frequency for each month. Forgot to label, but color corresponds to housepets year (June-May)

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:05 pm

Nice! Hey, do you have a version with all the characters ever tagged (including throw-away characters)? =3

GeckoZY · Post by **GeckoZY** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:18 pm

Douglas Collier wrote:Nice! Hey, do you have a version with all the characters ever tagged (including throw-away characters)? =3

It's kinda crazy long, but yes. Although... it has non-character tags too like 'Infinite Canvas', 'Christmas' and 'who cares'.
(You can watch Grape and Peanut fight for the top spot up there

)

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:28 pm

Wow... How long did it take to make that?

GeckoZY · Post by **GeckoZY** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:36 pm

Well, it took me 3 hours to program, 2 hours to collect data and another hour to build basic infographic thing. XD

Post by **Obbl** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:53 pm

GeckoZY wrote:
Obbl wrote:I really like infographics. Probably too much for my own good. I can't even get this message posted cause I'm so busy looking at it
I kinda have a breakdown of earlier half and later half at the links below, it kinda shows something more. >;P

I noticed

That's why I finished my post about 15 minutes after starting it

GeckoZY wrote:Well, it took me 3 hours to program, 2 hours to collect data and another hour to build basic infographic thing. XD

It's nice when you can get the computer to do most of the work

SnuggleKing · Post by **SnuggleKing** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:02 am

#Bino2015

Post by **Obbl** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 2:31 am

Xane wrote:
Obbl wrote:Thank you, Gecko, for uploading the mod's "Weapon Against Silly People Complaining About the Lack of 'Original Characters'" or WASPCALOC for short
...not entirely, seeing as how Grape's numbers have declined with every year and it looks like King matched or outdid her in 2012 and 2014 (2014 gets a partial pass though since it was the wrap-up for the Cosmic game).

Grape's (and Peanut's) numbers decline in proportion to the rising focus given to all members of the cast, which is bound to happen in a comic with the sheer number of characters Housepets! has.

And it continues to make my point that King only barely surpasses Grape in 1 year, and his "second half" statistics only manage to equal Peanut's and Grape's. Those two are still right at the top. King's arcs were individually long, but more or about equal amounts of the comic was still always devoted to the shenanigans of Peanut and Grape alone even given his focus in the "overarching plot".

And now the plot line is over, so we can get back to even more shenanigans.

SuperStar · Post by **SuperStar** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:05 am

Obbl wrote:
Xane wrote:
Obbl wrote:Thank you, Gecko, for uploading the mod's "Weapon Against Silly People Complaining About the Lack of 'Original Characters'" or WASPCALOC for short
...not entirely, seeing as how Grape's numbers have declined with every year and it looks like King matched or outdid her in 2012 and 2014 (2014 gets a partial pass though since it was the wrap-up for the Cosmic game).
Grape's (and Peanut's) numbers decline in proportion to the rising focus given to all members of the cast, which is bound to happen in a comic with the sheer number of characters Housepets! has.
And it continues to make my point that King only barely surpasses Grape in 1 year, and his "second half" statistics only manage to equal Peanut's and Grape's. Those two are still right at the top. King's arcs were individually long, but more or about equal amounts of the comic was still always devoted to the shenanigans of Peanut and Grape alone even given his focus in the "overarching plot".

And now the plot line is over, so we can get back to even more shenanigans.

I never really even assumed that King appeared more than the original two, just that he got all this focus and extreme arcs. I never had a problem with "overarching plot"s, it's just that it was all focused on King. I really think that Peanut and Grape could have some amazing super-natural "overarching plot"s if given a chance.

GeckoZY · Post by **GeckoZY** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 9:24 am

Here's another chart with frequency of certain characters to appear together in a comic strip. XD
My program kept crashing because of memory overload. In the end of it all (after adjusting memory allocation and stuff), it spit out a 1.25 MB plain-text file.^^'

And here it is colored and graphed. (as before, each bar corresponds to a housepets year; names are arranged such that in 'chara x charb', chara is before charb alphabetically)

Edit: For folks who want something more visual than that one above, here are two graphs with those relationships:
Legend:
Red - >40 connections
Green - 25-40 connections
Blue - 15-25 connections
Cyan - 10-15 connections
Brown - 5-10 connections
Purple - 2-5 connections

Inner core: (>15 connections)

Main Group: (>10 connections)

Edit: Here's an extra large one for those who want to see more of it.
Almost All: (>5 connections)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/453 ... raphXL.png

Y U Acking So Cray-cray: (>2 Connections)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/453 ... aphXXL.png

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 2:28 pm

That came out really nice! I love how much work you put into it!

GeckoZY · Post by **GeckoZY** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:59 pm

Thanks! I'm planning on consolidating them all into one bigger image some other time. ^^

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Mar 11, 2015 8:35 pm

Geez that sounds like its gonna be complicated and one very large image!

Post by **Sleet** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 4:28 pm

Wow, you're awesome! The amount of effort fans put into this comic...

But I love data. That's really cool!

Also: It miffs me a little how King was the most-used character of 2014. Peanut and Grape are supposed to be the main characters! *huffs* (Granted, I know, King has been moved away from the spotlight now, so it's all good.)

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 4:58 pm

I wanna see the people that haven't been used a lot used more.

Post by **Sleet** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 5:36 pm

I think that's reasonable, however I do think a comic like Housepets! needs to nonetheless keep to a hierarchy of character prominence. It's fine if more minor characters get an occasional place in the spotlight, but there still needs to be a cast of recognizable "major" characters.

GeckoZY · Post by **GeckoZY** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:33 am

Sleet wrote:Wow, you're awesome! The amount of effort fans put into this comic... But I love data. That's really cool!

Also: It miffs me a little how King was the most-used character of 2014. Peanut and Grape are supposed to be the main characters! *huffs* (Granted, I know, King has been moved away from the spotlight now, so it's all good.)

Thanks. ^^ If you guys have any suggestions on what kinda of data can I add to these, do tell. ^^

I think there should be more Fox or police K9 centered arc.

They're kinda seen all around, but they;re never the focus of an arc lately. XD

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:53 pm

I wanna see a Kevin arc where Sevin break up and Sasha gets with Fox and Kevin gets with ME!

Post by **Obbl** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 8:37 pm

I feel like you've said this before... and probably in the "future arcs" thread even

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:06 pm

You think that it could possibly mean something?

Foxstar · Post by **Foxstar** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:31 pm

I'm going to make sure that this doesn't go unnoticed for a while.

bjchan95 · Post by **bjchan95** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 6:14 pm

I've been keeping track as well, we have a list on the wikia
(As of March 16th 2015)

Peanut - 308
Grape - 305
King/Joel - 185
Maxwell - 123
Fox - 110
Tarot - 109
Sabrina - 106
Bino - 101
Fido - 95
Bailey - 78
Zach - 77
Keene - 74
Pete - 62
Spot (Superdog) - 56
Sasha - 53
Miles - 50
Spo - 45
Tiger - 44
Karishad - 43
Marvin - 43
Joey - 41
Rock - 41
Ralph - 39
Kevin - 37
Daryl - 29
Earl Sandwich - 27
Rex - 27
Spirit Dragon - 25
Cerberus - 24
"Four Finger Discount" Jack - 22
Jessica - 21
Jill Sandwich - 21
Duchess - 20
"Other" Daryl - 20
Great Kitsune - 19
Lucretia - 19
Lana - 14
Mr. Bigglesworth (various) - 14
Squeak - 14
Bill Lindberg - 13
Duke - 13
Res - 12
Jerry Arbelt - 11
Poncho - 11
Itsuki - 10
Bruce & Roosevelt - 9
Jeeves - 9
Pit - 9
Uncle Deadeye - 9
Cousin Rodney - 8
Natalie - 8
Keys - 7
Fiddler - 6
Simon - 7
Elaine - 5
Jeff - 5
Lucretia's mother - 4
Ryan - 4
Snow - 4
Delusional Steve - 2
Jake - 1

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:03 am

Kevin needs to be seen more. xP

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:51 am

Don't forget about Jasper, Jinx, and the crazy old man who only speaks in limericks, among quite a few others.

GeckoZY · Post by **GeckoZY** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:50 am

I have the list of every single one tagged so far. XD Though it's a bit messy with really minor characters and the occasional non character tag.

Anyways, here's that list. But it's kinda last updated on March 13, I think. Doubt that would be much different though.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45302791/List.html

And here's a similar list, but with the seen together pairings instead. (1.25 MB) XD
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/453 ... t-rel.html

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:02 pm

You certainly have a lot of time on your hands! I envy your dedication to this project! xD

SuperStar · Post by **SuperStar** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:05 am

GeckoZY wrote:I have the list of every single one tagged so far. XD Though it's a bit messy with really minor characters and the occasional non character tag.

Anyways, here's that list. But it's kinda last updated on March 13, I think. Doubt that would be much different though.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45302791/List.html

And here's a similar list, but with the seen together pairings instead. (1.25 MB) XD
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/453 ... t-rel.html

The other day I was just thinking "I wish the site allowed us to search for two tags that share comics", and now you have this! Thankyou, you are awesome!
Was it hard?

GeckoZY · Post by **GeckoZY** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 2:38 am

SuperStar wrote:
GeckoZY wrote:I have the list of every single one tagged so far. XD Though it's a bit messy with really minor characters and the occasional non character tag.

Anyways, here's that list. But it's kinda last updated on March 13, I think. Doubt that would be much different though.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45302791/List.html

And here's a similar list, but with the seen together pairings instead. (1.25 MB) XD
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/453 ... t-rel.html
The other day I was just thinking "I wish the site allowed us to search for two tags that share comics", and now you have this! Thankyou, you are awesome!
Was it hard?

Nah, not really, but my first code was kinda buggy initially, so most of the difficulty was on that.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 3:22 pm

I really envy your dedication to this project. I wish I could be dedicated to something! Whenever I feel like I make a mistake on something, I tend to just quit what I'm doing.

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:36 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:I really envy your dedication to this project. I wish I could be dedicated to something! Whenever I feel like I make a mistake on something, I tend to just quit what I'm doing.

At least you start, I am never brave enough to even start. Hey GeckoZY, are you planning on making anymore Info-graphs, they are are so great!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:44 pm

Yeah that is a good point. At least I have a leg over you!