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Re: Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

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Post by mrtron »

Fantastic visualization of that data. You should release some sort of library for creating these from Analytics data or however you were logging the referrals.

I would love to have a page with my traffic displayed this way - maybe over a few different time scales.

It is always nice to see such well thought out views of data like this, for movies and web traffic it really seems to do the task.

Re: Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

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Post by bprater »

mrtron wrote: post #2

Fantastic visualization of that data. You should release some sort of library for creating these from Analytics data or however you were logging the referrals. I would love to have a page with my traffic displayed this way - maybe over a few different time scales. It is always nice to see such well thought out views of data like this, for movies and web traffic it really seems to do the task.

Agreed, you are totally on to something here. It makes it really clear how the volume changes over time.

Re: Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

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Post by cawel »

Awesome!

With the-largest-the-higher convention, you have a very telling visualization of the evolution of the streams with time.

And I thought Google Analytics graphs were the best. There's always room for innovation!

Re: Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

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Post by jedc »

bprater wrote: post #3
mrtron wrote: post #2

Fantastic visualization of that data. You should release some sort of library for creating these from Analytics data or however you were logging the referrals. I would love to have a page with my traffic displayed this way - maybe over a few different time scales. It is always nice to see such well thought out views of data like this, for movies and web traffic it really seems to do the task.

Agreed, you are totally on to something here. It makes it really clear how the volume changes over time.

+1 from me

Re: Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

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Post by tdoggette »

The visualization here is excellent, and I love watching how a link spreads through the little ecosystem of linkers of different sizes.

However, I am very concerned about the headline, which suggests that HN is the most interesting part of this. I fear that posts framed this way are the first step into the pit of self-referentiality that reddit is permanently stuck in.

Re: Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

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Post by KirinDave »

What's so clever about his implementation is that he took the stream graphs and made the rendering very simple (blocks in columns linked by bezier curves, most drawing kits make these trivial). It turns out that it's actually an improvement for lots of different datasets.

It's really a great hack, and I suspect that a lot of people will copy it shortly. Certainly, I already am.

Re: Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

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Post by whacked_new »

Title is inaccurate. While the chart shows it, the linked article is not about reddit vs. hacker news traffic, nor does it even mention "Hacker News." It is a visualization of traffic from several sources, one of which is HN.
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