30 April
2013
Flying to Jacksonville – a few stats
First time ever flying into Jacksonville. I have been there a couple of times but never flown in. It is rare these days for me – after 20 years of flying in US – to say that I am visiting a particular airport in this country for the first time. Jacksonville will be the 103rd airport I have ever flown into. 58th in US. Why I keep track of these things, I do not know. Some more statistics I keep track of – how many countries I have visited (30), how many countries I have run in (11) and such… Do you have any such statistic that you keep track of?
One keeps track when the numbers are too high to count on dings 😛
Fingers!
I had three glasses of wine last night
Roger that is an underachievement for you 🙂
32 countries visited
Been to 42 states, plus PR and USVI.
46/50 states visited, 77 countries visited, 5 US Presidents met, 58 shows over 30 years with R.E.M., including going on tour with them on their final tour for 3 dates in Europe.
Rajib- so by airports visited, do you count ones you might have only transited through on a connection?
My husband keeps track of the number of cities in which our dog has done a certain activity, but I don’t imagine that’s appropriate here 😉
Michiko now that’s cool!!
19 countries visited, one more on deck this summer
Devashish, not sure others are defining. For my statistics, transits don’t count for airports or countries. BTW, my original question was not how many airports or countries you have been to – but do you have similar statistic that you find yourself tracking. I thought Michiko Had a great one. Heard from Sidharth – he tracks the total number of sneezes during pollen season!!!
Rajib: May I point out that the random variable “the total number of sneezes during pollen season” follows a Poisson distribution.
Rajib – no, I got your original question. I was just curious about the transit v/s actual leaving/entering an airport question…for me, it is a slightly more simple one – the number of days I have been away from home in a month/year/etc…!
Awesome statistic. I think I can go thru hotel records and deduce that!!
Now, Devashish’s point has a practical implication for those of us with only a green card: the number of days spent out of country. Can’t be more than 182 days if we want to keep our status!
Michiko, I thought for it to be Poisson, the actual probability of the event has to be very low but the mean (population times prob) is a reasonable small finite number – like low double digits. Does sneezing qualify?
Well, don’t put it on FB at least if it is more than 182 🙂
Rajib: anything that measures counts per space is a Poisson random variable. Space here is a season and counts… well you know.
BTW, the pollen count also qualifies as a Poisson random variable. In Atlanta, though, the lambda is very large.
@ Hal, seriously impressive!! 77 countries?!!
Man, Rajib, you have me going now. I will need to graph out this data sometime….too many nuances that can be derived. On hindsight, I wish I had started keeping track of actual flight, hotel details, etc 22 years back 🙂
I have visited 26 out of 50 states in the US and visited 14 countries.
Rajibda,though u asked about track records of visiting of foreign countries I’m going to share my experiences in WB. In India I just visited some places. As ur friend transfered from 1 district to another I’m lucky to visit the virgin beauty of nature of WB. I cann’t describe in words the natural beauties of Darjeeling. Almost every week we visited d remote villages & villagers with there splendid beauties. Same tradition continues in Digha,Birbhum,SouthDinajpur, South 24 Pgs. In Sundarban,The dense mangrove forests, Rivers with hundreds of inlets, staying in a launch at night & We r lucky enough to heard Royal Bengal Tiger’s roar these r all my track records.Have u ever visited Darjeeling,Sundarban?
Have you counted the number of times u have said “NO” in ur life?
I have attended 36 college festivals ( Technical fest/ cultural fests/ sports fests/management fest) as a student.