James and the Giant Corn » maize meeting http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com Genetics: Studying the Source Code of Nature Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:30:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The top ten instutitions attending the 52nd Maize Meeting this March http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/02/10/the-top-ten-instutitions-attending-the-52nd-maize-meeting-this-march/ http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/02/10/the-top-ten-instutitions-attending-the-52nd-maize-meeting-this-march/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:54:07 +0000 James http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/?p=1379 As determined by the domain names of 402 e-mail addresses that were recently revealed.

  1. Cornell University
  2. Google <– gmail.com was the second most common domain name among these e-mail addresses.
  3. Cold Spring Harbor
  4. University of Guelph
  5. Iowa State University
  6. University of California-Berkeley
  7. University of Florida
  8. UMR de Génétique Végétale du Moulon*
  9. (8) Purdue University*
  10. Syngenta

Overall a total of 134 organizations (or at least domain names) were represented in the list of e-mail addresses of attendees in my possession. If I could dig up historical data it’d be interesting to see how the rankings change over time.

Doing this sort of analysis very quickly (generating the data for this post took ~4 minutes, I timed myself) is one of the fringe benefits of learning even a little about programming.

Official 52nd Maize Meeting website.

(You see what happens when a guy has too much caffeine and then has a chunk of time too short to get any real work done?!)

*These two institutions are tied for number of attendees

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