More printing stats, weekends

This morning I noticed on our bandwidth tracker, that our internet connection had a busier weekend than any previous this quarter (when there wasn't a Bit Torrent running). Since this week is finals week, I hypothesized that the computer lab printers would be busier than normal.

Date Pages Sat Sun Ratio
6/3-6/4 26501 9468 16994 0.557138
5/20-5/21 15002 4384 10678 0.410564
5/13-5/14 11454 3973 7481 0.531079
5/6-5/7 16963 3797 13150 0.288745
4/29-4/30 14237 3963 10274 0.385731
4/22-4/23 12202 3463 8739 0.39627
4/15-4/16 9670 3115 6555 0.47521
4/8-4/9 13418 4257 9161 0.464687
4/1-4/2 13208 4302 8732 0.492671

So, yeah. It was. 26K pages this weekend, which is 9538 pages more than the next busiest weekend. The other thing that lept out is that the work was more even. The Saturday/Sunday ratio was MUCH closer to even than the past few weekends. And the Saturday numbers are also very interesting, since it shows an output this one Saturday versus any TWO previous Saturdays.

What is also interesting are the weekends of 4/15-16 and 5/13-14. Both of these weekends had markedly reduced page outputs. I wonder why that is? I strongly suspect that the chief driver of page output on weekends is having a paper due on Monday. Perhaps the profs of this University just don't like grading papers in the middle of the month? Hmmmm.

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