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6 hours ago, Frustration said:

And that would change the value of a dollar.

Yes, but it's not a 1:1 change.

6 hours ago, Frustration said:

Yes, but we don't have a world wide currency so making that conversion isn't possible

It's absolutely possible? Converting from one currency to another is rather straightforward. You have to take into account differences in purchasing power, but that's not an uncommon exercise (much less impossible). The Wikipedia page about it isn't short.

Generally purchasing power is based on comparing the costs of comparable goods and services. If bread costs 2 USD in the US and 4 CAD in the Canada, and the current exchange rate is 1 USD = 2 CAD, then we can say 1 USD and 1 CAD effectively have the same value. (if we are basing purchasing power entirely on a loaf of bread) It's basically the same thing as comparing the relative values of a single currency over time, with inflation in the picture.

This is why I jumped towards looking at the price of bread. It's a very imperfect point of measurement to be sure. There's a reason that "market baskets" typically consist of a great many goods and services... But I think that approach to comparing value makes more sense than minimum wage.

I'll fully admit this is pretty wonky though, and rather arbitrary, when we're comparing two different currencies across major time gaps. It's less like comparing the Euro to the US Dollar and more like comparing 2020 US Dollars to... Chinese currency in 1700.

6 hours ago, Frustration said:

my one answer is that we might have looked far more into this than Brandon did.

That I agree with fully

4 hours ago, Frustration said:

I think it would be better to look at the minimum wage, as without a way to look at the number of sphere's in circulation it would give us at least a rough approximate of the economy.

Assuming an eight hour workday the national minimum wage in the US is $58

I think this basis is problematic though. Minimum wage in a modern nation–one of the richest in the world–seems rather arbitrary. We could pass a bill tomorrow that changes the minimum wage. And the median daily income worldwide is quite a bit lower than this.

The poorest people in the work living on more than $2 a day seems weird to me.

1 minute ago, Stormrunner1730 said:

No problem!  

How does the ebook let you pull word counts for POVs?  Or is that not the right question? Haha.

And that's cool!  Did you generate the graphs and charts in Excel as well?

It's been a while so I don't recall precisely... I think I've done word counts different with different books. I think I opened the ebook in Calibre and downloaded a word count plugin?

Graphs and charts all in Excel, yep. All pivot charts I think.

On 12/13/2020 at 9:48 PM, Stormrunner1730 said:

This is awesome!  What tools/programs did you use for this?

Sorry I must have missed this.

I manually pulled word counts from the ebook and entered the data in Excel. That's all it is.

Might be some smarter way to automate getting the word counts, but it would be tricky (at the very least because of mid-chapter PoV changes) and require some manual work regardless (seeing who the PoV is and entering that). Takes a few hours of work, but I'd spend far more trying to do something "smart".

On 11/26/2020 at 1:15 PM, LiftIRL said:

hmm... This is rly cool! was the "other" in the gender count pecifically the sibling or am i missing something?

Sibling didn't get any PoVs. I believe the only one falling in that category was Sja-anat. Pretty sure the text uses she/her for Sja-anat, but I didn't feel comfortable labeling her "female".

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I'll have it done for sure by Stormlight Five.

Burns duralumin+atium to see:

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If you told me in 2020 that I'd still be working on this in 2023, I'd be like "wow what a slacker I turned out to be..."

13 minutes ago, Moonrise said:

Thanks! I do really like your Cosmere and Roshar nerd things! And the moons are of particular, albeit more passive, interest.

Glad it's interesting! Nice and relevant avatar you've got there. (I assume)

Heh, was just thinking, "Hey, someone asked about fletching just the other day..."

I added a comment from Ben recently about the Urithiru artwork, and there's the bridge schematics that he's done. Just to say that I wouldn't be surprised if he's got something else notable buried in there somewhere.

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First Shardworld Problems.

I chucked.

4 hours ago, Pagerunner said:

I can't follow the image links in your Given #3 bulletpoint.

Thanks. Fixed those and made another edit I was too lazy to go through before.

There may be a better way to make your database accessible online, but I do know you can put together something that works with Microsoft Access Runtime, which is free. People would download the runtime and then use it to open your updated database.