After doing The Incomparable, I had to go see what I could do with Relay.fm’s data as well, naturally.
So this is the beginning of that. The source code is included in this repo, and, in case anyone asks:
Yes, you can use these graphs for whatever. Maybe link back to me, that would be cool.

Please note that there’s probably still stuff coming.

Overview

Relay.fm spans 49 shows and a combined runtime of over 307 days spread across 6956 episodes since 2014.

In 2021, there were 759 episodes published, and we’re currently about 83.5% of the way there at 634 episodes this year.

Shows by Age

Shows per Year

Shows per Week

Regularity

Shows per Month

Runtimes

All Shows

Histogram

Average by Show

Boxplots

People

Sadly I don’t have a lot of data about people besides the hosts of each show. I could try to pry out the guests of shows out of each show’s RSS feed, but sadly this information is not neatly presented in the feed, but rather would require an amount of regexing I am not prepared, and therefore not able to do.
Be that as it may, here’s a bit about the hosts.

Host by hours per week of podcasting, says @lbutlr in the slack

Sooo okay! Filtered by episodes aireing in 2014 or later though.

Period of host activity