My Where's George Week in Review: 04/22/12 - 04/28/12

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 25 hits in 7 States [AZ, CA¹⁸, FL, NV, NY, OR, TX²]. I still have hits in 32 States in 2012 with none added this week. Additionally I now have hits in 407 counties with 1 new this week: Nacogdoches TX.

Of those 25 hits, 2 were the 3^rd hit on the bill, 2 were the 2^nd hit on the bill, and the rest (21) were the initial hit on the bill. The longest bill active from the bunch was re-entered 2 Years 169 Days 17 Hours 14 Minutes after I originally entered it.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
4	2	2	1	7	4	5

The 25 hits this week ties my worst week for the year. However, Where's George was having some hardware issues this week, and the site was down for a while on Wednesday to fix those issues. I think that may have played into why Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were light on hits. Thankfully, I still got a hit each day which keeps my current hit streak alive. It's now up to 25 days.

Taking a look at how my predictions regarding bill entries and hits are going so far, I still had a positive week in each category, although not by as much as in past weeks. But it's positive, so I'm happy.

	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	18429	18527	98	1807	21720	95.6	18346	+2	+181
Bills with Hits	2430	2829	2850	21	420	3445	19.4	2760	+2	+90
Total Hits	2799	3276	3301	25	502	4030	23.5	3199	+1	+102

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 86.87% [+0.58%]. Another slightly positive week:

	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	16002	16094	92	1667	18959	88.8	16065	+3	+29

As for the goal of having series 2009 pass series 2003A in number of entries, I'm still gaining ground and expect 2009 to surpass 2003A by the end of September:

	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	3699	3703	4	100		GoalNumber of Entries Needed Per Timeframe to Stay on Pace for the Year Based on the Predicted Amount of 5000 Bills Entered	44	819	+9	+153
2009	1339	2354	2411	57	1072		Actual	53	972

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", nothing new numbers-wise this week. I have made purchases of the final 100 "H" bills and my first 100 "I" bills (yay!), so I just have the second set of "I" bills to go. As such, the negative number for Minneapolis should start to reverse in a couple of weeks:

	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%	9199	49.92%	9228	49.81%	< 50.0%	49.94%	9368	+140
Boston "A"	461	2.76%	565	3.07%	574	3.10%	> 2.8%	2.85%	518	+56
Cleveland "D"	395	2.36%	578	3.14%	588	3.17%	> 2.4%	2.45%	445	+143
St. Louis "H"	382	2.28%	464	2.52%	471	2.54%	> 2.3%	2.35%	429	+42
Philadelphia "C"	376	2.25%	457	2.48%	466	2.52%	> 2.2%	2.25%	417	+49
Minneapolis "I"	352	2.11%	368	2.00%	368	1.99%	> 2.1%	2.15%	394	-26
Kansas City "J"	290	1.73%	360	1.95%	367	1.98%	> 1.7%	1.75%	323	+44

Even with the lower than average week for hits, I still got enough hits to make April the new record holder for hits in a month (currently at 133; old record was 129). With 2 days to go, April has a good chance to set this record well above the previous.