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Awesome work! Can you normalize it against total text volume? Number of mentions always goes up with time as HN grows, % of posts mentioning will be a better m
by ntoshev 15y ago
Awesome work!
Can you normalize it against total text volume? Number of mentions always goes up with time as HN grows, % of posts mentioning will be a better measure of mindshare.
- sant0sk1 15y agoThanks so much! Hmm, good idea on % of posts, though most of the value I believe is in comparing multiple terms, in which case the raw number of mentions isn't as important as the relation of the trend lines.
- akavi 15y agoThat's not entirely true. For example, the first thing I searched for was "Haskell", curious to see if it had gained or lost popularity in the past couple of years. The graph has an upward trend, but without knowing what the trend for total volume on HN is, that information is useless.