Jeremy Singer-Vine at Slate magazine has posted his own analysis based on Test Pilot’s Week-in-the-Life dataset!
He looked at tab use, and while his general conclusions are similar to what we found from the earlier tab study, his chart of tab use by demographics shows something interesting I’ve never seen before:
Jeremy rightly points out that the data behind this graph may not be the most reliable, due to the severe undersampling of women in the Test Pilot user base, as well as the fact that most Test Pilot users who submitted data did not fill out the optional demographic survey. It should be taken with a large grain of salt. Still, by suggesting that there might be significant differences in tab use patterns by age and sex, it points to what might be an interesting area for future experimentation.
This might be a good time to remind you that the deadline of the Open Data Competition is December 17. So there’s still time to do a visualization of your own and enter the contest!
Not The User's Fault 
December 7, 2010 at 12:18 am
4-6 tabs? Then who will use Panorama? 🙂
Panorama would be awesome as an addon.
December 7, 2010 at 1:07 am
@jrk
Or maybe the reason why few people keep more tabs open is that it is inconvenient, and Panorama will change this? I know it has already happened for me.
December 19, 2010 at 3:15 pm
🙂 So I’m using a hundred tabs or more and I’ll be 60 in a month and a week: this puts me wildly off the chart, especially, I suppose, as a male (you’re not saying, so I assume the colours on your graph are following the custom of clothing little boys in blue and little girls in pink). But then I’m using SeaMonkey, which puts me even more wildly off-chart.