What is the average comment length on Stack Overflow?
I'm working on my thesis about short message topic detection (on Twitter, to be more specific), and I would like to know that for research purposes.
What is the average comment length on Stack Overflow?
I'm working on my thesis about short message topic detection (on Twitter, to be more specific), and I would like to know that for research purposes.
146 characters.
To get the precise value, one should use floating-point arithmetic. The query is:
SELECT AVG(CAST(LEN(Text) AS FLOAT)) FROM Comments
This gives 145.98293005330171, or very close to 146. Beware of integer division when your result is not an integer!
Interesting features in the graph of the distribution include:
As of now, 145.