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Anidachi – a shapeshifting new digital companion(anidachi.com)
3 points by jjmccoolguy 2mo ago|1 comments
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by jjmccoolguy 2mo ago
Hi HN, I wanted to share Anidachi: a physical/digital pet I'm creating inspired by Tamagotchis and the screenmate programs of the '90s and 2000s. You can feed and play with Anidachis like other virtual pets, but I really want
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Show HN: Maria – A DIY anime-inspired holographic virtual assistant(maria.awardwinninghuman.com)
2 points by jjmccoolguy 4y ago|0 comments
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Laver's Law Revisited: A Data-Driven Investigation of Fashion Trends(laverslaw.awardwinninghuman.com)
21 points by jjmccoolguy 6y ago|4 comments
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
Just fixed the typo on "disproportionately" that was pointed out, and the duplication/misspelling of Michigan as "Michigan." Will probably not address the other suggestions tonight and just chill. Thanks everyone fo
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
Consider yourself lucky that I cut the over-long biographical introduction about my views on shopping and the effect of going back to school on my budget. I can tell you right now: neither funny nor interesting. But for your curiosity, I ch
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
Sorry, I was just vague. I scraped data for old listings around the site which seemed to go back to around 2014ish. Most data I collected last summer and over Christmas, and then it sat around for a long time.
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
Aw shucks! It is indeed d3, and, as per the commenter below, uses very very lightly adapted tufte.css for layout.
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
Can't answer conclusively. The big dip and the fall-off at the end were probably errors in my scraping. The site went down for a bit at a couple points, and the way dates were formatted changed a bit, all of which I thought I handled c
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
You make some good points, I made some bad choices. To address: > Yes, I meant relative inside each state but phrased it poorly > With median price, I probably should have limited it to periods and states selling more than x items &gt
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
Thank you! I used d3.js, my first love.
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
That sounds like a better article.
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
I do love all this conjecture on the titling (and your comment that women's clothing is an important subject helps me feel a bit validated in my time spent on this). I categorize it as weird because it's quite niche, there's
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
Ahhhhhhhh, sorry mate, good catch. I'll fix after work. I'm Canadian if it gets me a little off the hook.
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by jjmccoolguy 6y ago
There's some (easy) analysis to be done to look at if these brands are coming only from only one or two Goodwill sellers, which could help us better form a theory. I might take a look after work. Even then, I didn't want to go too
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A graphical analysis of women's tops sold on Goodwill's website(goodwill.awardwinninghuman.com)
394 points by jjmccoolguy 6y ago|84 comments