Coincidentally, I was also working on an HN Trends app a couple weeks ago (though I got distracted and haven't finished), and mine is normalized (by number of comments). For example:…
In case anyone wants to make their own trends (less sophisticated, but maybe more transparent), I have an app at http://hn-trends.heroku.com that plots word percentages on HN over time. For example, some emotive words…
Just to be clear, that's the number of users with at least one submission in a given month. (Not the number of users with at least one submission or comment, as I sleepily wrote originally, and definitely not the number…
I used R's awesome ggplot2 package.
D'oh, Apple always strangely slips my mind when I think of software companies. I added a graph (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10506/blog/hn-analysis/pct_apple.png). Interestingly, it's the company with the clearest upward…
Yeah, that measure was super hacky and I have no justification for it (but it was the simplest/only thing I could think of at the time). Do you have any suggestions? One thing I'm thinking of now is seeing how (# points…
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Coincidentally, I was also working on an HN Trends app a couple weeks ago (though I got distracted and haven't finished), and mine is normalized (by number of comments). For example:…
In case anyone wants to make their own trends (less sophisticated, but maybe more transparent), I have an app at http://hn-trends.heroku.com that plots word percentages on HN over time. For example, some emotive words…
Just to be clear, that's the number of users with at least one submission in a given month. (Not the number of users with at least one submission or comment, as I sleepily wrote originally, and definitely not the number…
I used R's awesome ggplot2 package.
D'oh, Apple always strangely slips my mind when I think of software companies. I added a graph (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10506/blog/hn-analysis/pct_apple.png). Interestingly, it's the company with the clearest upward…
Yeah, that measure was super hacky and I have no justification for it (but it was the simplest/only thing I could think of at the time). Do you have any suggestions? One thing I'm thinking of now is seeing how (# points…
SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred (Buzzword: Data Scientist) I'm primarily interested in freelance work, but full-time is also a possibility, and I'm willing to relocate. I'm currently in the Bay Area. I have several…