Johannes Kraemer
Laurie VossYour annual reminder that your monthly metrics will be down 10% in February because February is 10% shorter than January. Please do not contact your data team about it.
Christian Crumlish@seldo 30-day trailing "months" for the win
Sam Minter
Andrea Lazzarotto
Shanya (Over at BlueSky)
Holir_
β‘ @seldo If those executives could read this would make them very upset.
Jake has moved!
Arnan de Gans@seldo I donβt have a data team, who do I contact?
Klaus Frank@arnandegans @seldo controlling or finance...
Json Doh@arnandegans @seldo
If you don't have a data team in the business today you're out of business tomorrow
If you don't have a data team in the business today you're out of business tomorrow
Rob Marquardt@seldo A round of layoffs should take care of that.
Bornach
Kiwiguy@seldo I'm a forecaster and constantly have to explain the concept of working days per month.
Prof. G.@seldo -- No doubt some NYT columnist will note the drop.
Apologies for the low-hanging fruit. '-)
eyrea π¨π¦@seldo Yup. I once created a little JavaScript page which calculated the number of working days for a specified month (less stat holidays) for this exact reason. Among other things, I learned that November is as short as February if you get Remembrance Day off.
Michael Gisiger 
@seldo how dare you call it 'metrics'? Aren't you proudly part of the imperial part of the world? π
Corbin@seldo This is such a cool insight. The typical month is about 3% shorter/longer from the previous month, purely for calendrical reasons. Thank you.
Johannes Thorn@seldo shouldn't the metric be normalized by the number of days for that reason?
@johthor It should be but try persuading finance people to stop measuring things by months.
ouinne
shandrew at web
ACAB for Cutie 
Owen Mehegan@seldo
Accountant wife: "This is why we operate on a 52 week retail year, and use week over week metrics." Apparently Sales likes it, Finance hates it. "You can't file any financial statements on that basis, for one thing."
Accountant wife: "This is why we operate on a 52 week retail year, and use week over week metrics." Apparently Sales likes it, Finance hates it. "You can't file any financial statements on that basis, for one thing."
April π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπ:FCKAFD::bst:
Zombie Byron Kilbourn@seldo
"Last year, nearly 40% of sick days were taken on Mondays and Fridays. This is evidence that employees are abusing sick days to get a three day weekend. Going forward, any sick day taken on a Monday or Friday must be accompanied by a doctor's note"
--Memo from some small company's HR department, probably
Padraig McLoughlin
Jovan@seldo and April, June, September and November are all 3.5% shorter than January.
Emelia πΈπ»@seldo @pictureofitself wait, really? Is February really 10% shorter than the other months? (It is, I just checked, but I'd never thought of it that way before)
Gabriel Pettier@thisismissem @seldo @pictureofitself well, it's 3 days less than 31-days months, so about half of the other months, including January, and 3/31 is about 10%.
@tshirtman as I mentioned, I checked, that is I did the maths to understand this. I'd just never thought of it in this quantifiable way before.
Patrick Johanneson π π¨π¦@seldo Somehow I've made it my entire life so far w/o realizing that February is 10% shorter than January.
Jon Dowdle 
@seldo unless you are in charge of cloud cost reduction. Then take the 10% win and shout it from the rooftops
@jondowdle @seldo but then what do you say in march?
Mgshn@seldo wouldnβt this be more timely towards the end of the month?
πβπ½ πππ βοΈOMGosh @seldo this is hilarious @TheOverheadWire
Eric LawtonI think we should extend the idea.
8 pints per gallon, but the first, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 8th pints are Imperial, 20 ounces, the second is American, 16 ounces, the fourth and seventh are 19.
Own the metric libs!
I AM BANKSY β / πβπ₯@seldo I put in a ticket to have the shortness of February addressed. I'm told that they won't be able to look at it until 2024, but they're only promising a 3.5% increase initially.
hotkey (ZoΓ©)@seldo Submitting change request for 12 30-day months + 5 'free' days at the end of the year.
ShadowInTheVoid@seldo one more reason a 13 month year is better https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
@seldo Or you can try out month normalization! https://docs.timescale.com/api/latest/hyperfunctions/month_normalize/
Thad@seldo When I was working at GoDaddy, they fired one of the 5 guys on my team. A week later we started having daily meetings to discuss how productivity was down 20%.
ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπOK, I get that February is shorter, but why are clicks down? January wasn't like this.
Hayden Stainsby
Paul Dyson@seldo not even to ask them to normalise for days in the month?
Globaltom@seldo what about "per day" metrics? :-)
Ahti@seldo Also January cohort looks better on monthly retention since a larger share joins at the end of the month.
Anthony Eden@seldo can't we just agree to compare to previous year and not previous month? Comparing to previous month for most orgs just seems pointless to me.
lisa c@seldo @Cdespinosa (adding to my Monday morning staff meeting agenda)
Geoff π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ@seldo While we're here, 40% of sick days falling on Mondays and Fridays is not a sign of people scamming long weekends...
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@seldo just like how over 70% of all sicknesses begin during the working week, and more than 20% of staff who call in sick do so on a Monday!
(statistical literacy is hard :P)
Haelwenn /ΡΠ»Π²ΡΠ½/ 
@seldo Gifting a hobbit calendar to the data team to give them a hint.