The Tumblr Survey Results!

world-shaker:

A week ago I asked you all to take five minutes to fill out a quick survey about you, and how you use Tumblr. I hoped for around 500 responses.

I got nearly 3,000.

As promised, I’ve included the results below (in shiny graph form). There are over two dozen, so I’ve put them after the break to save your Dashboard from dying.

As a reminder, this was not scientific. It was self-reported (some groups of people may be more interested in filling out a survey) and put together in Google Docs (so there are limitations on the responses). There are flaws, but it’s still very interesting.

Finally, some of you have expressed interest in creating infographics, or digging deeper with the survey results. What I’d like to do is release the data for creative people on Tumblr to be able to create something new and interesting. This would be under a BY-NC Creative Commons License. This means you can create whatever you want with the data, as long as it’s not for profit and you link back to my Tumblr blog. Not too shabby for access to nearly 3,000 survey responses :o) The link to all of the data is after the break.

Click through to see the responses in graph form:

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Free cultures get what they celebrate - Clay Shirky http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html
Division of Knowledge - Chambers’ Cyclopaedia, 1728

From  http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia01

Division of Knowledge - Chambers’ Cyclopaedia, 1728

From  http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia01

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don’t know we don’t know” - Donald Rumsfeld http://hubpages.com/hub/25-Least-Thought-Provoking-Political-Quotes
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. Richard Feynman (via leiberry)
Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939). Portrait of a  Lady, undated. Oil on canvas. 97 x 50 cm (38 3/16 x 19 5/8 in.). Private  Collection.
© Mucha Trust 2009

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939). Portrait of a Lady, undated. Oil on canvas. 97 x 50 cm (38 3/16 x 19 5/8 in.). Private Collection.

© Mucha Trust 2009

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939). Woman with  Daisies, 1898-99. Printed velours. 78.5 x 81 cm (30 7/8 x 31 7/8 in.).  Ville de Paris, Bibliothèque Forney, Paris.
© Mucha Trust 2009

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939). Woman with Daisies, 1898-99. Printed velours. 78.5 x 81 cm (30 7/8 x 31 7/8 in.). Ville de Paris, Bibliothèque Forney, Paris.

© Mucha Trust 2009