Credits

This talk would quite literally have been impossible without help and input from the following people:

• Alden Bates, who keeps Teaspoon's software running.
• Columbine, my beloved and long-suffering spouse, who made Perl and SQL miracles happen to get statistics out of a database that stores most of its content in flat files.
• eve11 and her friend M., who supplied help with a scraping script. Please also check out eve11's "fandom statistics" tag for older Teaspoon (and other) stats.
• platypus, my dear friend, fellow mod, and beta, without whom the Great Handy Name List would not exist.
• And finally, Deb Stanish and Lizbeth Myles, who egged me on until I submitted this talk, and dammit, look what happened next.