My Where's George Week in Review: 07/01/12 - 07/07/12

Hover over this explanation for more detailsThe nerd that I am, I chose to post once a week a summary of my previous week's Where's George activity in comparision to my goals for the year.

In order to make the charts fit, I had to abreviate the column headers. Each header is now hoverable for an explanation.

In the past week, I received 33 hits in 11 States [AR, AZ, CA²⁰, CO, CT, IA, MA, NV³, OR, PA, TX²]. I now have hits in 37 States in 2012 with 2 added this week: CT, IA. Additionally I now have hits in 433 counties with 4 new this week: Miller AR, Floyd IA, Nye NV, Lycoming PA.

Of those 33 hits, 2 were the 3^rd hit on the bill, 3 were the 2^nd hit on the bill, and the rest (28) were the initial hit on the bill. The longest bill active from the bunch was re-entered 3 Years 78 Days 17 Hours 16 Minutes after I originally entered it.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
01	02	03	04	05	06	07
4	2	5	4	9	4	5

No hit-less days this week extends my current hit streak to 14 days. The 33 hits in a week was better than any week in June, and the 9 hits on Thursday was more than any day in June. Hopefully this is a sign that July will be more like March, April, and May than my disappointing June.

Taking a look at how my predictions regarding bill entries and hits are going so far, I'm still way ahead of pace on all three stats for the year (the weekly behind-ness on bills entered isn't surprising):

	SoYStart of Year	SoWStart of Week	EoWEnd of Week	WΔWeek Change: Number Added this Week	YΔYear Change: Number Added this Year	PPrediction (for Year)	P/WPrediction for Week: A Week's Share of the Total	PtDPrediction to Date: The Portion of the Prediction that should be Completed so Far	WvPWeek versus Prediction: How the Week's Numbers Stack Up Against the P/W	DvPDate versus Prediction: How the Year's Numbers So Far Stack Up Against the PtD
Bills Entered	16720	19944	20026	82	3306	21720	95.6	19302	-14	+724
Bills with Hits	2430	3081	3109	28	679	3445	19.4	2954	+9	+155
Total Hits	2799	3581	3614	33	815	4030	23.5	3435	+9	+179

Based on the goal of 5000 bill entries, here's how I'm doing towards my bill entry goals. Starting off with my goal of increasing the percentage that $1s make up of my entries by 1% (started the year at 86.29% so the goal is 87.29%), my percentage is now 86.95% [+0.66%]. I made back part of the deficit for where I need to be on this one. I expect that trend to continue.

	SoYStart of Year	SoWStart of Week	EoWEnd of Week	WΔWeek Change: Number Added this Week	YΔYear Change: Number Added this Year	GGoal: Number of Total Ones Needed by the End of the Year Based on the Prediction of 5000 Bill Entries This Year	GfWGoal for Week: This Week's Portion of the Goal Based on the Number of Bills Entered in the Week	GtDGoal to Date: The Numbers of One Needed to be Entered so Far this Year to be on Track to Met the Overall Goal	WvGWeek versus Goal: How the Week's Numbers Stack Up Against the GfW	DvGDate versus Goal: How the Year's Numbers So Far Stack Up Against the GtD
$1s Entered	14427	17336	17413	77	2986	18959	74.3	17424	+3	-11

As for the goal of having series 2009 pass series 2003A in number of entries, my 2009 entries are now just 510 behind. I expect that 2009 will take the lead before September is over.

	SoYStart of Year	SoWStart of Week	EoWEnd of Week	WΔWeek Change: Number Added this Week	YΔYear Change: Number Added this Year			WΔWeek Change: Number Added this Week	YΔYear Change: Number Added this Year	WvGWeek versus Goal: How the Actual WΔ Stacks Up Against the Goal WΔ	DvGDate versus Goal: How the Actual YΔ Stacks Up Against the Goal YΔ
2003A	3603	3772	3776	4	173		GoalNumber of Entries Needed Per Timeframe to Stay on Pace for the Year Based on the Predicted Amount of 5000 Bills Entered	37	1498	+16	+256
2009	1339	3209	3266	57	1927		Actual	53	1754

And for my goal of decreasing San Francisco "L" FRB entries below 50.0% while increasing Boston "A", Cleveland "D", St Louis "H", Philadelphia "C", Minneapolis "I", and Kansas City "J", all are well ahead of schedule and should remain as such:

	SoYStart of Year	SoY%Percentage of Overall at Start of Year	SoWStart of Week	SoW%Percentage of Overall at Start of Week	EoWEnd of Week	EoW%Percentage of Overall at End of Week	GoalGoal Percentage		GtDGoal to Date: The Numbers Needed to be Entered so Far this Year to be on Track to Met the Overall Goal	DvGDate versus Goal: How the Year's Numbers So Far Stack Up Against the GtD
San Francisco "L"	8532	51.03%	9717	48.72%	9746	48.67%	< 50.0%	49.94%	10062	+316
Boston "A"	461	2.76%	663	3.32%	667	3.33%	> 2.8%	2.85%	566	+101
Cleveland "D"	395	2.36%	671	3.36%	676	3.38%	> 2.4%	2.45%	486	+190
St. Louis "H"	382	2.28%	561	2.81%	569	2.84%	> 2.3%	2.35%	467	+102
Philadelphia "C"	376	2.25%	533	2.67%	536	2.68%	> 2.2%	2.25%	451	+85
Minneapolis "I"	352	2.11%	452	2.27%	458	2.29%	> 2.1%	2.15%	428	+30
Kansas City "J"	290	1.73%	450	2.26%	456	2.28%	> 1.7%	1.75%	350	+106

I entered my 20,000th bill this past week which seems both awesome and insane. I think now that I've hit a major milestone, I should think about if there's anyways I want to change how I participate in Where's George. I had been thinking that I would change my user notes into story fashion, but I haven't figured out how I wanted to do that yet. Its not too late to still go with that, but I'll need to figure it out before I start updating all of the post 20000 entries with their spent locations.

I think the 11 States hit in one week is the most I've had this year. It definitely makes things more interesting when there's a lot of non-California hits. I know that I've enjoyed looking at the hit reports more this week than on average.