Well this was a long time in the making.

All of this information comes from the FiMfiction API (Thank you Knighty!) and the Fimfarchive’s scraping of that data: http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Fimfarchive
The spreadsheets are current as of June 01, 2015, the latest archive release.

To see in better detail some of the graphs made in this video, check out this imgur album:
http://imgur.com/a/m5BqV

Now, the real meat of this data comes from the spreadsheets and manipulating the data as you see fit.

FimFic analysis:
This a spreadsheet of some of the basic info about fimfiction. There’s five columns that show how certain stats have changed over time. Note how different average is from the median.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wsj45jwHofcWpow4hXgJa3-BSOQcD1FnKSEcWREKgXA/edit#gid=0


Story Info:
This is a giant spreadsheet of every story that was on fimfiction as of July 19, 2014
Feel free to sort by most liked, most viewed, etc.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RMpWN3ErWIWH9htRsGBfqo_Zikqjypeg1MsD1065OVY/edit

June 01, 2015: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TRQbE5GoSF-SYZlOeLNUvvvsrdBBjrkmUENyRyM_g64/edit?usp=drive_web

Author Data:
This is the most massive spreadsheet because I put nearly everything I could find into it. It might take a while to load. In the video I used this to sort authors by most published words.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11pxP7oJdMWTBwZWUYHXIIPa3iq518NyfzNrY2MRbEBY/edit
June 01, 2015: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ANVPsqKShB89lXb5xCT3yXiUwlmWplPptfm2gkop6lg/edit#gid=104971379

Character Analysis:
This data is probably best viewed as a graph: http://i.imgur.com/oYk5yK0.png
The actual character tags on a story are not apart of FiMfiction's API, so that data was unavailable.
This is actually a spreadsheet made from scraping the Title, Short Description, and Long Description of stories and checking if someone’s name showed up.
I tried to check if certain characters grew more popular over time, but there doesn’t seem to be anything too statistically significant.
Click on the tabs on the bottom to view the data in different formats.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-tB--cReIT_cLE1mOtGfbs08ZNFuGeQaDGQgArcYmgc/edit


The Github project and the source code is available here:
https://github.com/Chinchillax/Fimfic-JSON-parser/
Feel free to tell me where I made mistakes.


How fast an average person can read came from a Forbes article on reading rates:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brettnelson/2012/06/04/do-you-read-fast-enough-to-be-successful/

If your curious, you can find out how fast you read here:
http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/technology-research-centers/ereaders/speed-reader/


The idea of an author writing 2,000 words a day comes from Stephen King’s advice in his novel, “On Writing.” His expectation for a beginning writer was actually 1,000 words a day.

Music used at the end is "Decisions Decisions" by Evening Star:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epXr8VSGQBs

For more current information, Fimfiction has a site stats page:
http://www.fimfiction.net/statistics

Thanks to /u/rsNeutrino on reddit for double checking my math. Reading the top 1% of fanfic would take 46.3 days at top speed, not 5.