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It would be interesting to adjust the data to compensate for day of the week, as well as for the dates that only happen in a few months out of the year. I wonder if the 31sts in that year were all in the middle of the week, or were all on weekends?


That's an interesting thought. It looks like they were spread out pretty evenly throughout the week in 2011 and 2010, though.

> as well as for the dates that only happen in a few months out of the year

That actually was compensated for. That's what the "Correcting for more frequent dates" section was about.


I'd be interested to see this same graph run for each day of the week, again normalized.


Sorry, I saw that and meant it to read as "as well as X, which you've already done".


ah I must've also missed that section


A quota doesn't need to be monthly. There could be weekly targets. So I agree: day of the week would be useful to see, here.


The 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th days are all above average.


However the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th days aren't always the end of a week (Friday, or Sunday?).

If we make the assumption that it doesn't matter, and the quotas are 'rolling', then surely the same could be said about the monthly quota not ending at the actual end of the month?


That's an interesting observation!


If you look at the graphs, the first two days and the 7th day of the month are higher than average. Same for the second week; the 8th & 9th and the 14th days of the month are higher than average.

Also, the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th days are all above average.


I made an update adjusting for day of the week (see "Updates"): http://robert.io/posts/4.html




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