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Reddit Insight
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#22This looks awesome. Next step is to make it "real-time."
I worked for an analytics company and got to build some pretty awesome visualizations using D3 and one of the problems I always ran into was that while the visualizations are cool, you rarely get any actionable information from the charts. I feel like this would be a lot better if at the end, there was some call to action.
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#23For how long did you collect data? During previous crawls, I've found that one of my spider bots can scrape through about 11.5k submissions and 51k comments per day (while observing Reddit's API access rules).
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#24we should do one for hacker news too.
It's much harder to get data from Hacker News, as HN doesn't have a public API (and HNSearch's API limits make it infeasable)
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#25So two big design issues, if you scroll down from the wheel of terms you go wobbly, clicking the down arrow below that last wheel, also wobbly. If you use on of the tabs to go to a graph you create a 'back loop' where the back button takes you to the start, then back again takes you back to the graph, then back to the start then back to the graph .... The data is interesting but I expect to see a bit of analysis in p…
We are aware of a lot of the issues on the home page and plan to completely redesign it soon. However which graph are you talking about? If it's the post tracking we will definitely look into it.
I can't even read this on my iPhone. All of the text is forced into a tiny column so small that it wraps after nearly ever word. A lot of the text is pushed right off the right edge of the page.
Please don't alter the viewport, you're doing it totally wrong.
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#26This looks awesome. Next step is to make it "real-time." I worked for an analytics company and got to build some pretty awesome visualizations using D3 and one of the problems I always ran into was that while the visualizations are cool, you rarely get any actionable information from the charts. I feel like this would be a lot better if at the end, there was some call to action.
Real time analytics is tricky due to API limits. (unless you can accept a "real time" of minutes/hours per update)
Example: Twitter's search API is limited to 15 queries of 100 Tweets every 15 minutes. Do you query 100 Tweets every minute, or 1500 Tweets every 15 minutes?
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#28Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world.
Keep it classy, HN.
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#29we should do one for hacker news too.
It's much harder to get data from Hacker News, as HN doesn't have a public API (and HNSearch's API limits make it infeasable)
>(and HNSearch's API limits make it infeasable)
I searched around and couldn't find information on API limits. Are these documented or just found via experiencing them?
The Hacker News karma tracker posted this past January seems to be able to get the information that would be necessary for writing something like this.
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#30Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world. Keep it classy, HN.
It's fundamentally horrible. The whole design approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of GeoCities, just using more recent but equally mindless design cliches.
In fact, it's so horrible it makes PowerPoint look good.