Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News

Post by topomorph » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 9:35 PM UTC

sant0sk1 wrote: post #30

retube wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came to say exactly this. The chart seems to start (by default anyway) at the beginning of 2007. I'm guessing the user-base and thus activity of HN has increased considerably since then. So yes it would be good to be able to re-normalise in some way. By the number of registered users would probably be the simplest. By number of comments posted would be another, by number of submissions or even number of words would a…

It uses submission titles AND comments. How would you suggest going about normalization?

Post by georgieporgie » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 9:45 PM UTC

Post by pitdesi » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 9:47 PM UTC

solipsist wrote: post #11

These trends are fairly interesting... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=y+combinator http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg%2C+tptacek%2C+patio11%2... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=2007%2C+2008%2C+2009%2C+20... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iphone vs. http://www.google.com/trends?q=android%2C+iphone&ctab=0&... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=show+hn%2C+ask+hn%2…

Post by solipsist » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 9:51 PM UTC

georgieporgie wrote: post #43

Very cool. Amazingly, C# is talked about precisely as often as C++! http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=c%2B%2B%2C+c%23 ;-)

Post by sant0sk1 » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 9:55 PM UTC

rmk wrote: post #48

Pretty cool visualisations. Just out of curiosity, why did you choose HighCharts? Did you look at jquery FLOT and choose HighCharts over FLOT? Or were you unaware of FLOT altogether? http://code.google.com/p/flot