Armory Data Mining
Wielding the Sword of SQL and the epic Libram of XSL Transformations, we excavate the treasures to be found in the World Of Warcraft Armoury.
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Wielding the Sword of SQL and the epic Libram of XSL Transformations, we excavate the treasures to be found in the World Of Warcraft Armoury.
August 14, 2010 at 12:34 am
[...] 13, 2010 by spinks Zardoz recently refreshed his datamining reports, and I thought this was a good opportunity to look at how class distribution is changing in [...]
August 16, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Hi Zardoz, I would be really interested in seeing the raw data for the class/spec breakdowns for PvE and PvP servers if that’s possible. (Mostly for future tracking.)
August 16, 2010 at 5:51 pm
No problem. I’ll send you an email.
September 1, 2010 at 8:41 am
Just wondering, Why is it that your Class Battleground Performance page, the chart for level 80s does not show priests? I’m a priest and curious where priests are at, but they are missing from the “Battleground Class Effectiveness, Level 80″ chart.
September 1, 2010 at 10:40 am
Priests have fallen off the edge of the chart because I’m setting the axis scales manually. I’ll fix it now. Thanks for spotting it. It’s interesting that each time I do those charts, the scales change. Unfortunately the sample size is a bit small, since only a small proportion of toons are effective PvPers.
October 17, 2010 at 5:51 am
Hi Zardoz, I am a PhD student in Cognitive Science & Telecommunications at Indiana University and one of the things I am interested in is using virtual worlds to do social science research.
I believe that large scale data collection from VWs has a lot of potential for answering interesting questions about human behavior. I figured that I would drop you a line to see how your felt about the possibility of sharing your data with a researcher. I was going to look into doing some scraping myself, but you seem to be way ahead of me. Drop me a line via email if you are interested. Some information about my work -> http://www.travislross.com/CV.html
Cheers,
TR
October 17, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Hey, really intrigued by the numbers here. Any chance or timeframe for an update for 4.01?
October 18, 2010 at 10:19 am
Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be updating the site. I’m not playing any MMOs now, so I’m moving on to other things. I’ll have a look at what effects Cataclysm is going to have on my database, but I’m expecting it will be… um… cataclysmic…
October 18, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Oh, I am sorry to hear that. Is it a pretty lengthy process to update the database? Or do you have a script to run though the Armory site?
I understand if you cannot, but I was just looking for some reliable population reports.
Thanks for your time.
October 19, 2010 at 1:28 am
Another fan of your great work here m8!
So please update for 4.0.1
/beg
Cheers
Robbie
October 29, 2010 at 2:20 am
Glad for you that you are finding new interests, but sad to see you moving on; you provided a really unique window into WoW. I hope someone gets inspired to carry on with similar work, but I suspect it is not so likely.
Thanks for all the data that you have provided with this project, I’ve found it really interesting.