How good was January? (aka DDK's BIG day)

There has been much detailed, serious, data-driven research about the current state of the snow season in this forum.  Amar has led the charge mustering a bevy of statistics, maps, and telemetry to create a compelling story about the snowpack.  While it's hard to argue with Amar's science, there is a certain je ne sais quoi (whatever that means) missing from the analysis.  A human element if you will.  With that in mind I offer...

DDK's BIG, BIG JANUARY!!!

I don't know how many of you read the lift accessed trip reports, but one of the most diligent posters is a creature known as DDK.  I've never seen a DDK in the wild despite many trips into the mountains over the years.  The natural habitat of a DDK seems to be Crystal Mountain and it's primary food source seems to be soup.

For my money DDK is one of the most relentlessly positive people in our community.  He seems to have a great day on the mountain no matter what the conditions may be.  For example on January 16, 2014.

Big day by anybody’s impression. Big sunny, big warm, big early fun...  Big fun, big vert, lots of SunnySide and Showtime runs on REX...  Big soup at CB lodge, good Chick Noodle.

What you may have noticed is that DDK likes the word "big".  In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a day that isn't big when DDK is on the mountain.  Given this, I claim we can compute a rigorously scientific DDK "Bigness Metric" for any given time period.  I chose to plot the bigness of ski days for the month of January over the last four years.  Basically it's the number of times DDK uses the word "big" in his trip report for the day.  And here's what that looks like.
http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboarding/trip_reports/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=33637.0;id=20966;image
You may ask, "What can we conclude from this data?"

I think it's pretty obvious...  Snowboarding is better than skiing, Alpental is better than Steven's Pass, and it's totally ok to snowshoe in the skin track.  No wait, this data doesn't say anything about those topics.

What we can actually conclude from this data is that, without question, the biggest January day for the last four years occurred on January 1, 2013.  It was 14 times big (that's a lot of big).  If you weren't on the mountain that day I feel sorry for you because you are... well.. small.  A close second is January 12, 2014, which is about as big as a dozen Top Pot donuts (or maybe a 12 pack of Rainier tall boys).

Another key takeaway is that January 4 and 29 are predictably not big.  Don't even think about skiing on those days regardless of the year -- you will be disappointed.

Although it's not obvious from the graph, the overall January bigness count has been 59, 60, and 59 for the years 2015, 2014, and 2013 respectively.  This represents a remarkable consistency in the bigness across years.  I think we can confidently say that January 2015 was no less big than the prior two years (this is consistent with Amar's pseudo-scientific analysis in other posts).  It also likely proves that global warming is a farce, the new chair 6 didn't improve skiing at Crystal, and that green bars look very pretty on graphs.  Alternately it may indicate that DDK has an underlying bigness budget per month that remains consistent from year to year.

In closing I'll leave you with some words from DDK on the biggest day ever -- January 1, 2013.

Have I ever used the word Big?  Or BBBIIIIGGGG!  Today was big views from Oregon to Canada, big sun, big blue skies, almost big warm temps (got me down to baseball gloves for most of the day), big bumps getting bigger, still nice smooth screaming big PB runs, big soft mush runs on both sides of HC chair...

Keep it big DDK.  Your positive attitude makes even a weak snow year entertaining.

BRAVO.

Post of the year. Awesome.

And jj drops the mic!!

Any correlations between the soup, the macadamian cookies, and how big the day was?

Nice.