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Economy => Trading Discussion => Topic started by: szuetam on April 21, 2013, 07:02:49 PM



Title: Better way of geting realy intrest data than google trends?
Post by: szuetam on April 21, 2013, 07:02:49 PM
Is there sth more precise than google trends like this:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin&date=1%2F2013%205m&cmpt=q
Which could show what is real interest for bitcoins?


Title: Re: Better way of geting realy intrest data than google trends?
Post by: botsofbitcoin on April 21, 2013, 07:19:21 PM
Tweet rate is probably a good proxy.


Title: Re: Better way of geting realy intrest data than google trends?
Post by: kiko on April 21, 2013, 07:40:12 PM
wikipedia stats aren't a bad proxy either.
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Bitcoin (http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Bitcoin)

or bitcoin.org
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitcoin.org (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitcoin.org)


Title: Re: Better way of geting realy intrest data than google trends?
Post by: ChristianK on April 21, 2013, 08:07:27 PM
What do you mean with "interest"? Why doesn't the bitcoin price reflect it?


Title: Re: Better way of geting realy intrest data than google trends?
Post by: btcmind on April 21, 2013, 08:18:26 PM
Number of transactions. Analyzing the type of transactions occur would be interesting in so far that's possible. Blockchain already filters for popular adresses. People can only bitcoins if they know them. These trends are only of predictive use in the long term, i'm sure. daytrading on stats would not make sense IMO.

http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=


Title: Re: Better way of geting realy intrest data than google trends?
Post by: SlipperySlope on April 22, 2013, 04:01:38 AM
Quote
wikipedia stats aren't a bad proxy either.
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Bitcoin

or bitcoin.org
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitcoin.org


These are great! They are consistent with other measures of bitcoin interest, e.g. Google Trends.