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I know javascript and jQuery suffer from their popularity and utility I think in this analysis. There is also the issue of jQuery and javascript tags being used by people as synony…

No just the post bodies (question and answers) at the moment, but we are working parsing the comments and the post history, those datasets are about 4 times the size of the posts! …

Thanks. Yea i agree our initial use case was to provide an interface to the dataset and to allow us to explore what kinds of things developers were sharing on SO. For the next vers…

Wow - ok looking into that now. What version of ios?

Thanks, yea second most requested feature after the domain filter. Will hopefully add soon.

Thanks, yes we are actually working on a paper to that effect at the moment.

Thanks. Yes the domain filter is a great idea, will go to the top of the feature request list. The site is c#, asp.net mvc, with a javascript front end, backed with sql server 2012…

Thanks for the support. Yes to everything above :) We are currently mining the post history data to be able to do those kinds of time range queries. Cant wait to get that out there…

So these are taken from the March 2013 data dump, which includes questions going right back to the start of SO. So some of these links have been collecting citations for a few year…

I actually had that in an earlier version and took it out just to simplify the design but i am actually looking at this again to produce a better sorting experience. Also the numbe…

Wow, that's really cool, have to admit i didn't see that before. Let me know if your interested in sharing data, we are doing a lot of research in this area and the more data the b…

Thanks for the support, really encouraged by the feedback here on Hacker News. You guys are great. To your question, yes I am currently testing some ideas for a magic ranking syste…

Thanks, will update.

Thanks for the heads up, will modify the parser, again if anybody knows of a good open source crawler let me know. I rolled my own very quickly but would love it if i could find a …

Interesting in c# the second most popular link is for the BackgroundWorker class, not entirely the same use case but i guess similar motivations. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/li…

Thanks. Re the redirects, yea I have a lot of work to do on my crawler, my current solution is hand rolled and only has limited capabilities. But if anybody knows of a good open so…

Yea, I know. I think it probably goes back to that SO joke about "Q - I have this programming problem" "A - jQuery"

Ah, you guessed my next paper :) I have done a little informal analysis on the top 10 results from linked_lists vs the top 10 for that tag used as a Google query. They are quite di…

Great idea, will try and look at that next.

Fixed.

Thanks, missed that one, will fix.

Thanks for the comments and votes. By the way if anybody is interested this was presented as part of the mining challenge at MSR2013 http://2013.msrconf.org/challenge.php and here …

Thanks, yea we will have to do some work on cleaning up our title and description parser. Will add to the bug list.

Thanks for the heads up, fixed.