Quick blog post on the support and displaying of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! host, panelist and scorekeeper preferred pronouns on their details page.
I've only added ones that have been published on their respective socials. If they do not provide their preferred pronouns, I won't be entering any details into the database.
If you ever wondered the difference between notes taking during a live taping of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and notes taken while listening to the edited version? Here are the notes for the edited and the live version respectively.
The new location map feature for the Wait Wait Stats Page has been deployed to production. I have also published a development update blog post with other things that I'm working on.
Been working on incorporating a feature for the Wait Wait Stats Page that was requested about 2 years ago: adding a map showing the location of the venue when viewing the location details page.
While the addition of the feature was simple, getting the coordinates for all of the venues is what took the longest for me to get around to collecting and entering. Also, I needed to extend the backing library to return that data.
After taking a bit of a break from listening through the first two years of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! (which I finished listening through all of the 1998 shows I have audio for), I finished listening through (and entering data for) January and February 1999 this weekend.
While I won't be able to match that pace going forward, I'm still going to aim for listening to and entering data at least 2 shows a week going forward.
I also fixed a little bug in the Stats Library where sorting of panelists based on their scores should have been using their new decimal scores column instead of the integer scores column. Oops.
After toying around with the idea of opening up donations for anyone who would like to support my development and hosting of the Wait Wait Stats project, I have started a Patreon account for it:
On Christmas, I published new versions of the Wait Wait Stats Library, Stats API, and Stats Page to add support for multiple Bluff the Listener-like segments that were common during the show's first year.
I've published a blog post with additional details on the changes and links to each project's release notes.
After a couple of months of not listening to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me shows from 1998-1999, I have listened to and entered in data for the last two shows of September 1998.
Will hopefully have October and maybe some of November done in the next week or so.
With the relevation that panelists can have non-integer scores at the start of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment from #WaitWaitDontTellMe shows back in 1998, I had to update the #WaitWait Stats library and family of applications. I've provided some details and links to the new versions in a new blog post.
I have finished listening to almost every episode of #WaitWait from January 1998 through the end of July 1998. I'm still missing the audio file for May 23, 1998 and hope to get it from the archives in the coming weeks.
It's interesting to see how they tweak the format of each show and some of the segments, including when segments like Not My Job and Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank make their debuts.
If you would like to browse through the shows, notes and other tidbits that I've collected, they are now available at: https://stats.wwdt.me/shows/1998/
I have published a new blog post that provides an overview of the changes to the #WaitWaitStats projects that I have been working on to support decimal (non-integer) panelist scores.
While the code has been published for the Stats library, API, Graphs, Reports and Stats applications, I have not published the new versions to production yet. I hope to do so in the coming week.
Blog Post - Wait Wait Stats Update: Decimal Scores
I'm happy to say that I've been able to put in a bit of work on extending the #WaitWaitStats apps to support panelist decimal scores. Right now, the changes have been committed and merged into the development branches of the wwdtm library, Wait Wait Stats Page, Wait Wait Stats API and Wait Wait Reports web apps.
Thankfully, I had #PyTest scripts that allowed me to find issues as I worked on all of the changes.
I'm not ready for the changes to go live yet and still have to update the Wait Wait Stats Graphs web app.
Hopefully I can get everything up and running next week on the production server.
So I hear that early #WaitWaitDontTellMe episodes like having non-integer points for panelists scores. Well, I'm just starting to work on supporting non-integer scores in the #WaitWaitStats database and applications. It'll probably be a little while before it's ready for production.