Statistics taken from main product page ... only as accurate as Logos coding.
Interesting. Thanks MJ. They are earning their salary.
MJ, what are these statistics of?
Sorry MJ, but I've been told one main rule to follow when sharing information is "don't assume people know what you are talking about because they may not know (or sometimes just pretend they know lol)."
Having said that, what are this statistics all about? What are you trying to show here? Pardon my ignorance, but I don't know what you are trying to say...LOL
Thanks!
DAL
There are some difficult distinctions in this chart. For example the categories "Armininan Wesleyan", "Methodist", and "Evangelical" would often overlap. "Evangelical" could overlap with any other of the categories. There are many other such overlaps.
Yep, I could point out that the Church of Christ is not listed (it's ok is not a denomination) or restoration movement is not listed, but I still don't know what the chart is all about...sorry, just curious, and again, pardon my ignorance.
Yep, I could point out that the Church of Christ is not listed (it's ok is not a denomination) or restoration movement is not listed, but I still don't know what the chart is all about...sorry, just curious, and again, pardon my ignorance. DAL
I think it shows the overall increase in books for each denomination. In just the last few months Logos has put out close to 800 books. Wow! Is that correct?
Yep, I could point out that the Church of Christ is not listed (it's ok is not a denomination) or restoration movement is not listed, but I still don't know what the chart is all about...sorry, just curious, and again, pardon my ignorance. DAL I think it shows the overall increase in books for each denomination. In just the last few months Logos has put out close to 800 books. Wow! Is that correct?
Now that I think about it, maybe it is showing that Logos has "tagged" 800 more resources to fit within a denominational category in the last few months.
I've given the statistics in the past as a pie chart. I was personally more interested in the changes so I changed formats. The columns under the dates are the Logos provided count of resources by denominational groups as provided by Logos on the home product pages and the calculated %. The last two columns, not under a date, is the change in number of resources and the change in percentage between the two dates.
So is this chart saying that as of October 23, Logos has 5804 resources. Do they not count resources from other companies in the Libronix era? Is that because while you can still get these resources in Logos, you cannot do it directly?
Thus logos only has 5804 resources?
Sorry if I sound confused on the chart. The chart is interesting, but just wonder about the details of what the chart means.
MJ, may I ask where you got the chart? What webpage in Logos did you find these statistics? Is it from a blog?
I'm somewhat sure each not broken up collection is counted as 1 and that every book in broken up collections are counted +with 1 SKU counted for the collections themselves.
I believe Logos has roughly 30,000 individual titles and that number is growing daily.
Bob Pritchett's goal was to add 10,000 new titles in 2013.
I will attempt to explain the chart that MJ posted based on the graphs that she has posted in the past. Hopefully, if my understanding is incorrect she will correct me. I believe that the 5,804 number is only counting denomination specific resources. For instance, The writings of Menno Simons would be denominational specific for Mennonite or Anabaptist. Several resources are not denominational specific. An example of this would be most lexicons and dictionaries. They don't fit into a specific group.
You can get the numbers for each denomination by going to the Logos product page. On the left hand side, you will see categories. Click on "Christian Group" to see the numbers and resources for each specific group.
The percentages are the total amount that the specific group makes up of the total Logos denominational library. A quick example of this would be to look at MJ's chart and look at the first category of Anabaptist. On June 16, 2013 there were 30 resources dedicated to the Anabaptist faith. These 30 books made up 0.60% of Logos' total offerings. As of October 25th the total offerings for Anabaptists went up by a whopping 1 resource which now means they own 0.53% of Logos' total offerings. The percentage went down simply because there has only been one resource added for Anabaptists while other denominations had a significant number added. Lutheran had 128 new resources added. The final column represents how each denomination either grew or decreased in Logos' total offerings over this time period. Anabaptist's total market share of Logos' total offerings dropped by 0.06% while Lutheran's total market share grew by 1.84% since June 16th.
Using this information we can analyze the short term affect of how Lutheran's offerings have grown significantly during the last few months, which may be a result of Logos hiring someone with Lutheran background who's job is to ultimately acquire the rights to new Lutheran resources for Logos. Compared to Anabaptist, which, to my knowledge, has no product product manager has remained stagnant.
Edited for clarity and I obviously can't spell very well.
Thanks Rick. That makes it clear to me.
Super.Tramp...I knew there were more resources. That is why the chart confused me. I seem to understand it better now.
I will attempt to explain the chart that MJ posted based on the graphs that she has posted in the past. Hopefully, if my understanding is incorrect she will correct me.
Your explanation is also the way I understood it. (If we are wrong I hope MJ will correct us both.) One big conclusion I draw from this chart is; having a denomination specific product manager will increase development, classification and sales of those Logos products. So when will we get a Baptist product manager? [:P]
Thanks MJ that makes your chart crystal clear now.
There certainly seems to be room for a denominational manager to sort out what books are denominational specific. Just looking at the offerings under Plymouth brethren makes that clear. It would help in sales.
I have 'mixed feelings' on the denominational tagging. On the one hand, if you're Lutheran and you select 'Lutheran', I assume you'll be thoroughly pleased (not sure).
But if you're NOT Lutheran, and you see a resource tagged 'Lutheran', the message (judging the book by its cover ... tag), is to 'move on'. This is ESPECIALLY true on the forum sub-directories (I forgot the word).
Now, most forum participants would say ... well, dummy, don't judge a book by its cover/tag!!
But sometimes you DO want to save time and avoid those awful books from the XYZ denomination. Works of the devil for sure!
Probably no real solution.
So is this chart saying that as of October 23, Logos has 5804 resources.
No, it is saying that as of October 23, Logos has classified 5804 resources into the top 20 Logos denominational tags. "Top 20" because the web pages does not allow us to expand to the whole list, merely to the top 20 entries. That some resources may be tagged into multiple categories is implied by the Anglican/Episcopalian splits . The logic of the categories is at times puzzling. The only manipulation I do is combine the Spanish and non-Spanish Catholic figures. Data design that combines two independent variables (language, denomination) deserves a big "F" that I refuse to perpetuate.[;)]
What webpage in Logos did you find these statistics?
Logos website --> Products homepage --> left hand side selection options
I'm somewhat sure each not broken up collection is counted as 1
Given the Seventh-day Adventist counts, I agree that what is counted appears to be SKU's
I will attempt to explain the chart that MJ posted
Good job Rick. Thanks.
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