RealmPop Enhancements?

[Silverthorn]

I understand that Realmpop.com is a work in progress. It's certainly interesting. The breakdowns by PvE/PvP, RP/Normal, Region, Time Zone, Faction, Gender, Race, and Class are certainly things that have been attempted before, but not always conclusively. Of all of these, I would think that the Faction pie chart is the most useful so far. It can give a quick answer to "What is the faction balance on this server?"

Some other interesting possibilities could be:

by profession, by skill level/tier - That could answer what professions are underrepresented/overrepresented on this server or faction?

by population itself - how populated is this server compared to other servers?

by level - what is the distribution of characters' levels on this server?

by auction house - how many items does this server's auction houses have compared to other servers? What's the breakdown by product category?

These areas could potentially tell us where might be a good place to start an Inscriptionist character-- perhaps a server with low population, high raw materials on the AH, few Glyphs on the AH, and few Inscriptionists already there. Or maybe find where's a server with lots of low-level characters?

Thanks for your consideration!
Silverthorn

P.S. I didn't see a forum for RealmPop, but if there was somewhere else I should posted this, I'm sorry.

[Gamehost]

Pretty interesting to see the breakdwon of my realm. It's saddening to see how balanced it is with alliance and horde and diferrent classes. Really no niche market catering to a certain class.

*Side note, may wanna fix the site name in the first sentence. Was confused why i was being led to a site about music.

[Erorus]

No problem if you wanna discuss Realm Pop here.

Realm Pop is pretty much a done project as far as I'm concerned. Maybe if Blizzard puts last modified times on each character's record in the guild roster, I might do some things to show just active characters, but I don't see that happening.

Can't get profession stats (or gear, achievements, progression..) because that's potentially a bunch more info to store, and it's not in the guild roster API. I'm limited to the guild roster API so I only do about 400,000 requests to the API every week instead of 25,000,000.

You can compare server populations in the list on the bottom of a region's page.

You can also use the slider bar on a region's page or on a realm's page to limit by level. It's kinda small, just under the pie charts, easy to miss.

I could do AH stats cross-realm on TUJ (and kinda do on the scatter plot on item pages) but I don't know how useful it'd be to dig into categories and stuff.