Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles • Hacker News Board

Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by alxjsn » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 11:23 PM UTC

I love the story! Excited for the next challenge!

Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by seshagiric » Thu, Dec 07, 2023, 11:49 PM UTC

anjakefala wrote: post #10

NoraCodes wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

chanukah is 8 days. presumably one puzzle will be released each day.

Yes, exactly! A new puzzle will be released at 4pm UTC each day.

oh cool, can't wait for it.

Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by tonetheman » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 12:10 AM UTC

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Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by littlekey » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 12:36 AM UTC

Thanks for this, will give it a try :)

Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by akprasad » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 12:39 AM UTC

The ASCII candle is really charming, especially when lit. Looking forward to exploring this further. Great work!

Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by harshreality » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 1:19 AM UTC

The phone number input requires dashes, which are entirely optional in general for communicating telephone numbers (dashes and parens only serve as decoration for readability these days).

Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by chirau » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 2:58 AM UTC

Pretty cool. Got the first two. Now I have to wait for the next one...

Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by jerpint » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 3:15 AM UTC

Solved it all last year, looking forward to finishing this year’a puzzles!

Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by saulpw » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 3:50 AM UTC

adityaathalye wrote: post #3

dwimmer's animated text art elevates everything about Hanukkah of Data! I wrote about how it works, here: https://evalapply.org/posts/animate-text-art-javascript/

You did a great job on the text animation code, Adi! I've found myself falling into a trance watching the flickering candles.

Re: Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

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Post by saulpw » Fri, Dec 08, 2023, 3:56 AM UTC

jerpint wrote: post #18

Solved it all last year, looking forward to finishing this year’a puzzles!

Well, the puzzles are the same, only the clues and dataset are different. But you might want to do them again anyway, to polish up your scripts--on the last day of Hannukah, we'll be posting a more challenging dataset for you to try to speedrun.

And keep on the lookout for more data puzzles from us in the near future!