## The Incomparable Podcast — In Numbers

Note: This is a work in progress.
I have a lot in mind for this project, but I really really should be studying right now.

# Introduction

Well, Jason Snell tweeted a graph of The Incomparable runtimes.
As a big fan of the podcast and an aspiring nerd, I asked for the data, obviously.
I was happy to receive his .numbers file, but unfortunately it only contained two variables - the two needed for the plot.
Jason replied he could get more metadata if I liked and since I really really would like that, I rushed to set up this repository and put on my data-pants.
A short time after that, Jason delivered magnificiently.
And now my analysis begins.

# Overview

The Incomparable has been running since 2010-08-22, with 312 released so far.
An average episode of the podcast is 78.3 minutes long, with a total runtime of 407.2 hours, or roughly 17 days. The most frequent category is Movies with 83 episodes.

# Runtime

## Scatterplot of All Episodes

The episode numbers in this are slightly off, due to The Summer Superhero Spectacular, which foiled my plans of representing the episode numbers numerically. I therefore numbered the episodes chronologically, so for example, episode number 258 is the 258th episode aired, but relative to the show’s numbering, it’s still part of 255.

# Acknowledgements

• Thanks to Jason for setting up the stats.txt files I parsed for the data.
• Thanks to Juba for the RMarkdown template

2016-07-12 06:13 UTC