topomorph

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by topomorph 15y ago
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: http://hn-trends.heroku.com/trends?q=scala%2Cclojure Yo
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by topomorph 15y ago
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 that appear to have
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by topomorph 15y ago
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 of distinct visito
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by topomorph 15y ago
I used R's awesome ggplot2 package.
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by topomorph 15y ago
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 trend.
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by topomorph 15y ago
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 at the xth percentil
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by topomorph 15y ago
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