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@jasonkester: the dataset only spans 14 months, so i'm not quite sure what you mean by yearly surge in interest. there are very definite horizontal seasonal flu
by sogrady 16y ago
@jasonkester: the dataset only spans 14 months, so i'm not quite sure what you mean by yearly surge in interest. there are very definite horizontal seasonal fluctuations, though, it's true.
as to the second question, matching is simply by keyword, or at least the regular expression equivalent.
- d0mine 16y agoMarch to May is a spring (season). If you see a surge in interest between February and April it might mean that Spring (framework) has nothing to do with it.
- sogrady 16y agoAh, ok: the argument is that HN members will be mentioning "spring" with increasing frequency during the matching season of time? To answer then, no. The data is not cleansed for those purposes, so discount the Spring data as you will. FWIW, a regular expression match for season returns 1940 results across the entire HN dataset, which spans 49 months, meaning that the number of context independent mentions of that word are ~40 month.