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July 27, 2011

#930: Days of the Week explain

Days of the Week

[The whole comic is a single panel, with a circular diagram of the days of the week.]

Polar graph of what stuff happens on which days, based on number of Google results for phrases like “company meeting on .”

The relative frequency of in is shown by the distance from the center at which ’s line crosses .

Each curve is normalized to have the same number of total hits - they’re not on the same scale.

It follows the plot as a sortable table:

{| class=“wikitable sortable”

! scope=“col” style=“width: 100px;” colspan=7 | Ring position in pixels from center on …

! scope=“col” style=“width: 100px;” rowspan=2 | Ring Color

! scope=“col” rowspan=2 | Topic

! scope=“col” rowspan=2 | Ring Text Pattern

|-

! Monday

! Tuesday

! Wednesday

! Thursday

! Friday

! Saturday

! Sunday

|-

| 16 || 97 || 594 || 181 || 78 || 45 || 9 || dark green || Ladies night || is ladies night

|-

| 194 || 176 || 159 || 216 || 137 || 65 || 64 || purple || Announcement || announced

|-

| 151 || 243 || 146 || 168 || 165 || 66 || 60 || light blue || Company || company meeting on / company meeting

|-

| 264 || 138 || 143 || 134 || 257 || 29 || 32 || yellow || Due day || due on

|-

| 141 || 102 || 112 || 103 || 206 || 183 || 146 || green || Sex || got laid

|-

| 59 || 22 || 105 || 65 || 258 || 350 || 138 || red || Alcohol || drunk on / so drunk

|-

| 32 || 92 || 91 || 88 || 218 || 194 || 169 || dark blue || Big day || is the big day

|-

| 30 || 29 || 72 || 28 || 77 || 115 || 778 || blue || Church || Church

|-

| 189 || 89 || 67 || 137 || 183 || 137 || 198 || dark red || Menstruation || got my period

|-

| 113 || 62 || 49 || 64 || 391 || 134 || 158 || bonze || Breakup || we broke up on

|-

| 155 || 46 || 38 || 266 || 176 || 151 || 164 || pink || Terrible day || sucked

|-

|}

(Not easy to reproduce the actual plot, these are the phrases, in order of popularity on Wednesday.)

  1. is ladies night

  2. announced

  3. company meeting on / company meeting

  4. due on

  5. got laid

  6. drunk on / so drunk

  7. is the big day

  8. Church

  9. got my period

  10. we broke up on

  11. sucked

[Thursday, from most common to least common: 11, 2, 1, 3, 9, 4, 5, 7, 10, 6, 8]

[Friday, from most common to least common: 10, 4, 6, 7, 5, 9, 11, 3, 2, 1, 8]

[Saturday, ditto: 6, 7, 5, 11, 9, 10, 8, 3, 2, 1, 4]

[Sunday, ditto: 8, 9, 7, 11, 10, 5, 6, 2, 3, 4, 1]

[Monday, ditto: 4, 2, 9, 11, 3, 5, 10, 6, 7, 8, 1]

[Tuesday, ditto: 3, 2, 4, 5, 1, 7, 9, 10, 11, 8, 6]