Posts by ILoveTTATT2

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Goal: To digitize all WT statistical data

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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i have the goal of digitizing all wt statistical data, as much as possible, as far back as possible.user 88jm.

i recently did 1980 and i had a friend help me with 1979 and 1978.. do we have any volunteers to help me with previous years??.

it's a lot of work, but if you know excel you can make some macros that will speed up the work..

ILoveTTATT2

Hi Konceptual99,

It really depends on your skills in Excel. If all goes well, you just have to copy something that has been OCRed, paste it in Excel with the text paster that does the brunt of the work, and do clean up. About 80% of the data gets pulled in correctly.

It takes about an hour to clean up, I use macros that speed up the process (such as recording a macro to shift left, insert a row of specific length, etc).

As long as it is exactly what's on the report but in Excel, I can work with that to make it in the same format as 88JM.

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Goal: To digitize all WT statistical data

by ILoveTTATT2 in

jw
friends

i have the goal of digitizing all wt statistical data, as much as possible, as far back as possible.user 88jm.

i recently did 1980 and i had a friend help me with 1979 and 1978.. do we have any volunteers to help me with previous years??.

it's a lot of work, but if you know excel you can make some macros that will speed up the work..

ILoveTTATT2

Anyone?

Could you please PM me if you'd like to help even with just one year, i.e. 1977, 1976, etc??

I would really appreciate the help!

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Goal: To digitize all WT statistical data

by ILoveTTATT2 in

jw
friends

i have the goal of digitizing all wt statistical data, as much as possible, as far back as possible.user 88jm.

i recently did 1980 and i had a friend help me with 1979 and 1978.. do we have any volunteers to help me with previous years??.

it's a lot of work, but if you know excel you can make some macros that will speed up the work..

ILoveTTATT2

I have the goal of digitizing all WT Statistical Data, as much as possible, as far back as possible.

User 88JM

has already done from 1981-2016

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_bzL2A4XRiodmp0OWpWUmJjaFU//

I recently did 1980 and I had a friend help me with 1979 and 1978.

Do we have any volunteers to help me with previous years??

It's a lot of work, but if you know Excel you can make some Macros that will speed up the work.

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Data for Partakers from 1935-2016. Latest number wasn´t this high since 1954!

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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friends

i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.

this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.

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ILoveTTATT2

I'd prefer the graph starting at zero on the Y axis.

The graph like it is accentuates the rise in partakers since 2007. You can do it if you wish, I have shared the data in the link. (Just too tired to do it right now).

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Where the need is greater: TTATT in Spanish

by Londo111 in

it seems most of the us growth is in spanish-speaking territory, and of course, there is growth in the nations where spanish is the predominant language.

most sites oriented around ttatt, are english-speaking.

there seems then to be a great need for translators...for instance, imagine if there was a spanish version of www.jwfacts.com.. unfortunately, i dont speak this language.

ILoveTTATT2

It shouldn't be necessary to translate the parts from a Spanish WT publication on jwfacts.

I know that.

I would conrtact Paul with your ideas in a practical form.

I am in constant contact with Paul. In fact, many times the English articles have been improved by my research. Things that Paul missed, things like that.

or advertise in more sites
http://extj.com/

That site doesn't work anymore. I haven't been to the new Spanish forum, but it seems like it's single-issue, and I am already the admin of the largest Spanish exJW page on Facebook.

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Where the need is greater: TTATT in Spanish

by Londo111 in

it seems most of the us growth is in spanish-speaking territory, and of course, there is growth in the nations where spanish is the predominant language.

most sites oriented around ttatt, are english-speaking.

there seems then to be a great need for translators...for instance, imagine if there was a spanish version of www.jwfacts.com.. unfortunately, i dont speak this language.

ILoveTTATT2

Three years later, there's over 20 articles translated and going now at a rate of about 1 per week!

http://www.verdadtj.com/

The articles translated are:

UN
Birthdays
Blood
1914
1925
1975
Why it's wrong to be a JW
Watchtower Scandals
Disfellowshipping
General Pamphlet
Growing up a JW
Jehovah in the NT
Fear and Mind Control
False Dates
How to Help Someone Come Out
Misquotes, Lies, Deception
Generation
Light Gets Brighter
Paradise
Organization
Governing Body
Faithful and Discreet Slave (in progress).

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Data for Partakers from 1935-2016. Latest number wasn´t this high since 1954!

by ILoveTTATT2 in

jw
friends

i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.

this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.

.

ILoveTTATT2

When Tony and Goofery got their appointments in 2005, followed by the the baby, Mark Sanderson, in 2012, the org had to come up with a way to leave the door open a crack

And that door was officially opened in 2007. http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/memorial-partakers.php

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Clearly, they're hunting down irregular publishers

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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look at this graph:.

it has the % difference between the peak number of publishers and the average number of publishers for that year.

this number can only be positive.. what the graph tells us is that there is a clear trend towards hunting down inactive and/or irregular publishers.

ILoveTTATT2

Remember also that their bar for being counted as a publisher is set pretty low. You can be in a nursing home and count 15 minutes a month or invalid and write a couple of letters an be counted as a publisher.

Very true. I believe that is one way in which they have been inflating the numbers. Setting the bar lower and lower to be considered a publisher and not go "irregular".

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Numbers don't lie... and these numbers are beautiful!!

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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the numbers don't lie... definitely slowing down!!.

in the 40´s the average growth per year was 20%in the 50´s it was about 10%they had four decades of solid 5% per yearnow the average for the past 16 years has been 2%.

maybe in the future it will be 1% or 0 or even negative????.

ILoveTTATT2

Can you imagine any other idea that is 'true' requiring that amount of time to convince just 1 person of its veracity? Or are all those 8 million odd witnesses utterly inept?

Both.

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Data for Partakers from 1935-2016. Latest number wasn´t this high since 1954!

by ILoveTTATT2 in

jw
friends

i gathered the data for the memorial partakers every year since 1935 (the first year they had data) until now.. the latest figures haven't been that high since 1954!.

this stat looks very bad in watchtower land because the decreasing # of partakers was given, for decades, as proof that the end was near!.

.

ILoveTTATT2

Also, free wine and crackers!

Still needs cheese or something!!