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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

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Total Reading Time per Month

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I made the plot of how much people are reading each month by multiplying the average reading time per month (in visible length) times the number of views per month. I filtered visible lengths that were negative and I assumed that visible lengths over 1 hour were actually 1 hour long. The total amount of time people spend reading was about 672,349 years. This excludes readers from the mobile app and excludes views from bots.

This chart plots an estimate of the total amount of time people spend reading Wikipedia each month from 11-2017 -- 10-2018

Here's the data from the plot:

date mobile total_reading_time
0 2017-11-01 False 43295.951916
1 2017-12-01 False 39732.028518
2 2018-01-01 False 41650.512606
3 2018-02-01 False 38224.067674
4 2018-03-01 False 41887.618633
5 2018-04-01 False 40690.526351
6 2018-05-01 False 43225.596423
7 2018-06-01 False 38372.933721
8 2018-07-01 False 36525.296029
9 2018-08-01 False 35689.575922
10 2018-09-01 False 36715.545496
11 2018-10-01 False 41418.146929
12 2017-11-01 True 15621.533332
13 2017-12-01 True 15091.640384
14 2018-01-01 True 17012.445210
15 2018-02-01 True 15172.511449
16 2018-03-01 True 16389.398960
17 2018-04-01 True 15825.271933
18 2018-05-01 True 16727.603405
19 2018-06-01 True 15581.736288
20 2018-07-01 True 16176.784013
21 2018-08-01 True 16446.557261
22 2018-09-01 True 16711.410115
23 2018-10-01 True 18164.488203
24 2017-11-01 Both 58917.485249
25 2017-12-01 Both 54823.668902
26 2018-01-01 Both 58662.957816
27 2018-02-01 Both 53396.579123
28 2018-03-01 Both 58277.017593
29 2018-04-01 Both 56515.798284
30 2018-05-01 Both 59953.199827
31 2018-06-01 Both 53954.670009
32 2018-07-01 Both 52702.080042
33 2018-08-01 Both 52136.133183
34 2018-09-01 Both 53426.955610
35 2018-10-01 Both 59582.635132