Live data from Hacker News

Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

blog.wolframalpha.com

51–60 of 61 posts

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

#51
post #28

It would be extremely cool if they'd expose information such as what moveset each Pokémon has available to them so I could make queries like 'what water type Pokémon that can learn Hydro Pump has the highest Special Attack stat'.

Somewhat related, I made a prolog library to make this kind of query few months ago. I didn't add the moves (yet), but learning Prolog with this kind of project is pretty fun !

https://github.com/arcanis/trivia.pokemon-prolog

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

#53
I'd be much more interested in WolframAlpha merging data about StarCraft II.

There is a lot of computing going on there, DPS (Damage Per Second) possibly modified by upgrades and enemy type, etc. This data could be genuinely useful to the SC community.

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

#54
post #34
post #28

It would be extremely cool if they'd expose information such as what moveset each Pokémon has available to them so I could make queries like 'what water type Pokémon that can learn Hydro Pump has the highest Special Attack stat'.

Maybe consider scraping bulbapedia into an SQL database? :) -- i'm dreaming SELECT pokemon.name FROM pokemon JOIN pokemon_learn_moves ON pokemon.id = pokemon_learn_moves.pokemon_id JOIN move ON pokemon_learn_moves.move_id = move.id WHERE move.name_en = "Hydro Pump" ORDER BY pokemon.sp_atk DESC LIMIT 1; Actually, from this perspective there's a lot of boilerplate, no wonder people like key-value stores... Then use pyt…

Actually, it is not always necessary to write a lot of boilerplate code when using a SQL database. For example, with Pony ORM the same SQL query could be written as following:

    select(p.name for p in pokemon
           if "Hydro Pump" in p.learn_moves.move.en_name
           ).order_by("p.sp_atk").first()

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

#55
post #53

I'd be much more interested in WolframAlpha merging data about StarCraft II. There is a lot of computing going on there, DPS (Damage Per Second) possibly modified by upgrades and enemy type, etc. This data could be genuinely useful to the SC community.

And when including timings you could easily calculate and optimize build orders.

Re: Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon

#56

Always liked WolframAlpha, this is also awesome. But what i really like, is to match stuff like protein in bananas vs spinach to know what i'm going to (prefer to) eat soon ^^.. So, thanks!

How come when I search "food by protein" I only get results from Wendy's?
Post reply on HN