I've got an idea for a better predictor for a time remaining widget but I need some data to run through it to test how well it works. I'd like it to work well for predicting how long a variety of things will take to finish. Things like downloads, installs, computations, etc.
What I'm looking for is data in the form of {%done, time} pairs at fairly high resolution (100 to 1e4 pairs). If anyone knows of such data pleas post a link. If anyone is interested in generating such data, I'll get you my email or something or you could just stuff it in an answer.
The widget would be a generalized form of the classic progress bar for file downloads where it says "Time remaining 00:10:34" or something like that. The API would be like a normal progress bar widget but it would also track the time history of the update calls and try to guess how much longer it will take to get to 100%