{"id":11551,"date":"2016-01-01T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2016-01-01T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:04:48","slug":"happy-blog-anniversary-and-some-year-end-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/11551","title":{"rendered":"Happy Blog Anniversary! (And Some Year-End Stats)"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 31 marked the fifth anniversary of this blog, so on top of wishing Happy New Year to all, I am also wishing this site\u00a0Happy Blog\u00a0Anniversary!*<\/p>\n

December 31\u00a0also marked the close\u00a0of this blog’s most successful year ever: Between 2014 and 2015, the number of page views almost doubled, increasing by 94.6 percent for a total of 134,951 page views coming from 79,710 visitors in 2015. (This is in no small\u00a0part thanks to Mark Thoma<\/a>‘s generous linking to my posts from his own blog Economist’s View<\/a>, which anyone with an interest in economics should read.)<\/p>\n

My\u00a0top 5\u00a0posts of 2015 were, in descending order of popularity:<\/p>\n

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  1. Why a Soda Tax Is Unlikely To Work: Yours Truly in the Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. ‘Metrics Monday: Data Cleaning<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. ‘Metrics Monday: You Keep Using That Instrumental Variable; I Do Not Think It Does What You Think It Does<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The Books That Have Shaped My Thinking: Development<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. The Books That Have Shaped My Thinking:\u00a0Economic Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Got it: You guys like to read about econometrics and books, so I’ll make sure to keep talking about those things in 2016. I guess it somewhat\u00a0of a relief that the top post in 2015 was about food, which\u00a0contrary to what 2 to 5 above might lead you to believe, remains one of the three core topics I write about on this blog.<\/p>\n

    Happy New Year, everyone!<\/p>\n

    * I still cannot bring myself to use the awful “blogiversary” portmanteau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    December 31 marked the fifth anniversary of this blog, so on top of wishing Happy New Year to all, I am also wishing this site\u00a0Happy<\/p>\n

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