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Good point. I wasn't really thinking about normalization as I was more interested in comparing trends on multiple terms, but I don't think it'd be too much work
by sant0sk1 15y ago
Good point. I wasn't really thinking about normalization as I was more interested in comparing trends on multiple terms, but I don't think it'd be too much work to change the algorithm to account for HN's growth.
- suking 15y agoYah, you could easily do it by total # of posts to account for the growth. Cool stuff man.
- hammock 15y agoThe trends on multiple terms are actually easier to read after normalization anyway. Right now the power-law curve growth of HN in total is making it hard to read the difference in growth between, say, FB and twitter. Easier for our brains to process if you took the ln() of them - which is definitely the fastest way to fix the charts - or normalized in some other way.