I want to make some clarifications about the brand names in my first post. The brand graph in that post is kind of misleading and I want to try to fix that issue. As also discussed in this The Pen Addict podcast (BTW; thanks for the mention in the podcast :) ), the results are shocking. Aurora seems to be shared 3 times more than Montblanc. This result is misleading because I only scraped the brand tags to plot the graph. Montblanc tags are not only used by fpgeeks, also Aurora is not only a brand name. Probably people are sharing cool pictures like this one.
What I will do below is to graph the brand names using only the data that comes from the fountainpen tag, as I did for most widely used tags graph in my previous post.
I will only scrape the posts with fountainpen tag and extract brand information from those tags. This way, I will ignore cool Aurora posts. The code will be similar to previous ones. So I will just show the graph here. If you are interested in the code, you can see it from the source of this post, which is here.
As I mentinoned in my previous post most popular brand is Lamy. As seen from the graph and the table below, Montblanc is nearly 15 times bigger than Aurora. And, it seems people just take pictures of Parker pens. Here is the brand names in table format. One final note; these are the brand names from the latest 5000 posts tagged with fountainpen.
## Tag Frequency
## 1 lamy 544
## 2 namiki-pilot 303
## 3 pelikan 197
## 4 twsbi 157
## 5 montblanc 149
## 6 kaweco 141
## 7 noodlers 117
## 8 parker 111
## 9 scriptoriumpens 95
## 10 sailor 80
## 11 waterman 76
## 12 platinum 61
## 13 visconti 53
## 14 gvfc 46
## 15 rotring 45
## 16 scrikss 45
## 17 sheaffer 45
## 18 montegrappa 34
## 19 hero 24
## 20 jinhao 24
## 21 omas 24
## 22 newtonpens 19
## 23 cross 18
## 24 monteverde 14
## 25 edison 11
## 26 aurora 10
## 27 franklinchristoph 10
## 28 carandache 8
## 29 bexley 5
## 30 delta 5
## 31 stipula 4
## 32 conwaystewart 3
## 33 conklin 1
## 34 wahleversharp 1