{"id":7939,"slug":"panel-ng-eg-seat-gap-period-means-23-october-2026","title":"Nigeria-Egypt seat gap on Spotify’s African panel: period means either side of the 11 October zero-gap reading","source":"Computed from this desk's panel-ng-eg-seat-gap-post-closure-23-october-2026 dataset, 30 collection dates, 12 September to 23 October 2026","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"The 30-row seat_gap series was split at the 11 October 2026 reading, the first and so far only date the gap reached zero. The 26 readings from 12 September up to and including 11 October form the before_closure period; the 4 readings since, 16, 17, 18 and 23 October, form the after_closure period. n, sum and mean were computed directly on the seat_gap column within each period. zero_or_negative_readings counts dates where Nigeria's seat count was equal to or behind Egypt's.","unit":"seats","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"high","retrieved":"2026-10-23 02:04:59","n":3,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"period","label":"Period","type":"text"},{"key":"n","label":"Readings","type":"number"},{"key":"sum_seat_gap","label":"Sum of seat gap","type":"number"},{"key":"mean_seat_gap","label":"Mean seat gap","type":"number"},{"key":"max_seat_gap","label":"Max seat gap","type":"number"},{"key":"min_seat_gap","label":"Min seat gap","type":"number"},{"key":"zero_or_negative_readings","label":"Readings at zero or negative","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"period":"before_closure (12 Sep-11 Oct)","n":26,"sum_seat_gap":136,"mean_seat_gap":5.23,"max_seat_gap":11,"min_seat_gap":-1,"zero_or_negative_readings":2},{"period":"after_closure (16-23 Oct)","n":4,"sum_seat_gap":15,"mean_seat_gap":3.75,"max_seat_gap":6,"min_seat_gap":2,"zero_or_negative_readings":0},{"period":"full record (12 Sep-23 Oct)","n":30,"sum_seat_gap":151,"mean_seat_gap":5.03,"max_seat_gap":11,"min_seat_gap":-1,"zero_or_negative_readings":2}]}