Talk:Keeping statistics

He, Prino thats really complicated ;) I just count lifts and km's. And also waiting time for the lifts. 09:17, 20 September 2010 (CEST)

It is and it isn't. Once you get the hang of it, like after 30 years of doing it, it's pretty easy to fill in the notes, copy the lot to a file and run the programs, the set of programs even contains a program to check for (most of the) errors in the data you add to the main input file.

For what it's worth, a long time ago someone on the "hitching" list mentioned that he could do everything I do with a spreadsheet. Never heard from him again... Also, my program is pretty modular, if you want less output, just comment out the generation of some (or all) of the more esoteric tables, recompile, and rerun.

Some of my stats were used, as you may have seen, by Sylvain Viard in his 1999 Auto-stop Approche géographique Masters Thesis, and some of the less esoteric tables that the program generates are useful(ish) to answer questions on fora or the various mailing lists.