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Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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post #36

Are these links from only 2013? It would be interesting to see what the top links are by year/month or something too.

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 years. We only mined the actual post content on the date the dump was created, we did not mine the post history. But we are working on that right now, its a lot of data to process :)

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

#52

Very cool I like it! I like that it adds whatever tag you clicked on to the top, but maybe you should save that between sessions. Also, a lot of the more popular languages will reflect what everyone here has already seen and worked with - which is cool because it does what you advertise, but the usefulness is somewhat limited for us folk. It would be cool to have a year/month/week filter to see what has been linked t…

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 it should be very cool indeed, also want to allow users to search by their SO id and to filter their links by tag. (As an aside when we do mine the history we will be able to get more accuracy on which users actually posted which links rather than just the post owner.)

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

#53

Great work. I am sure this would be useful if there was a filter on official documentation sites like jquery or php.net etc. In the spirit of HN, how does it work and what powers it? :)

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. And running on AWS.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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This is nicely done, but so far isn't returning anything interesting for me. All the results are very basic (Django docs, PHP docs, etc), which makes sense, the most often cited will be the most general.

What about a change in algorithm to try and add some discovery here. What if you look at votes for answers vs cites? So things that have a high average vote:cite ratio rank?

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

#59
post #56

Doesn't work on an iPad. I type in my search term, press enter, and nothing happens. Furthermore, when I enter my search term, the "Filter by tag (e.g. javascript)" text doesn't disappear.

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

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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This is nicely done, but so far isn't returning anything interesting for me. All the results are very basic (Django docs, PHP docs, etc), which makes sense, the most often cited will be the most general. What about a change in algorithm to try and add some discovery here. What if you look at votes for answers vs cites? So things that have a high average vote:cite ratio rank?

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 version we are working on new ranking metrics that will improve the discover aspect, vote:cite and view:cite are 2 we are looking at.
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