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Visualizing Hacker News
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#22it'd be cool to integrate it with http://smood.it
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#23Wow, how did this get discovered? I'm a co-founder at EffectCheck and I was working closely with Scott this weekend as he was building this. It wasn't really ready for viewing yet, but okay... :) Please note that the top graph is currently a mixture of two sets of data. The older points were using a less sensitive and improperly calibrated HN comment model, hence why everything is drifting around near "Typical." The…
I'd like to know the scientific basis of EffectCheck. The site offers no explanation. Could you point out specific research papers, or link to technical info? Thanks!
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#24Wow, how did this get discovered? I'm a co-founder at EffectCheck and I was working closely with Scott this weekend as he was building this. It wasn't really ready for viewing yet, but okay... :) Please note that the top graph is currently a mixture of two sets of data. The older points were using a less sensitive and improperly calibrated HN comment model, hence why everything is drifting around near "Typical." The…
I'd like to know the scientific basis of EffectCheck. The site offers no explanation. Could you point out specific research papers, or link to technical info? Thanks!
I'll let tansey go in to more detail when he gets back. But for now, heres a link to one of his comments from last time EffectCheck was on here.
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#25Wow, how did this get discovered? I'm a co-founder at EffectCheck and I was working closely with Scott this weekend as he was building this. It wasn't really ready for viewing yet, but okay... :) Please note that the top graph is currently a mixture of two sets of data. The older points were using a less sensitive and improperly calibrated HN comment model, hence why everything is drifting around near "Typical." The…
EffectCheck looks really cool, but didn't seem to have any demo/try it out feature. I suppose it's not there? Or did I miss it? Thanks.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to know the scientific basis of EffectCheck. The site offers no explanation. Could you point out specific research papers, or link to technical info? Thanks!
I'll let tansey go in to more detail when he gets back. But for now, heres a link to one of his comments from last time EffectCheck was on here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603438
So would you say this comment is an accurate description? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603825
"It seems that the point is to introduce their special-sauce black box, with an argument to authority about its methodology. I think the correlations you ask for are where the problems will lie, in that there is a value judgement that is being hidden. If I can put myself out on a limb here, I'd say that that measurement is going to be fundamentally unscientific."
Also, this seems like an important question, if you claim to be based in science:
"How can we falsify your claims? That is, what is a test we can perform that if it went a certain way, would show that your claims are false?"
It occurs to me that human color perception is another "subjective but scientific" field. You might want to research the experiments they performed for e.g. color matching in varying illumination levels, then come up with an experiment with a similar structure.
Specifically, if EffectCheck is accurate, then it should correlate with how 100 average people would classify e.g. a sample of 1,000 twitter messages.
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#27are you also behind the http://www.wefeelfine.org/ project? It was neat when it came out years ago... Although still not sure how to make any meaningful use of this tool. I suppose it is more useful for content generators..
That's really cool! I have never seen that project before. I checked our colors compared to the results of the study:
Anxiety: #2288ff vs. #595884 (anxious)
Hostility: #ee0000 vs. #E0192C (angry) -- hostile only had 100 samples
Depression: #3300cc vs. #283152 (depressed)
Confidence: #ee00cc vs. #FF7F00 (confident)
Compassion: #11bb00 vs. #00696F (sorry) -- not sure on this word choice but compassionate wasn't available. Loving was #004E6F
Happiness: #ff8800 vs. #FF7F00 (happy)
So I would say we did well on all except maybe Confidence. However, confident shows up as almost the same color as happy, so we would have to differentiate somehow anyway.
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#28interesting idea. Doc here. I would organize them as 1. Depresssion 2. Anxiety 3. Hostility 4. Happiness 5. Confidence 6. Compassion Anxiety and Depression definitely go together, in the same way that hostility and happiness are actually similar in terms type of emotion, in terms of level of intellect, and confidence and compassion would be at the highest end of that spectrum. I would also change the colors to group…
Thanks. My co-founders [1][2] actually did spend a decent amount of time thinking about this. The emotions are first sorted into negative on the left and positive on the right. The order is for symmetry of left/right side words: - Anxiety is the opposite of Confidence - Hostility is the opposite of Compassion - Depression is the opposite of Happiness As for the colors, each one is correlated to the typical psychologi…
If you're trying to illustrate position on three spectrums, illustrate three spectrums. 6 bars on a graph implies, however vaguely, to the reader, despite your intent, that the abscissa means something. But it doesn't. It just confuses the picture. so get rid of that abscissa.
In any case, anxiety and depression are generally a package deal in clinic. So I would put them together visually.
Depression --------------------X------- Happiness
Anxiety ----------------X----------- Confidence
Hostility -------------------x-------- Compassion
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#29So cool! This is what I had started working on for the HNSearch API Contest, but I hadn't gotten far. I'm SO glad someone did this. I feel as though this could be made into a useful and viable product, if marketed correctly and accurate enough.
Do you mean as like a dashboard for a bunch of different social news sites? What would be some killer features that you think would make it in to something people would pay for?
Eventually, yes, adding sites like Reddit, even newspapers, trending topics on twitter (and then evaluating the mood of tweets with the keyword(s).
Also, allowing them to see the popularity of certain trends (traffic, if you will). I am not familiar with the industry…maybe the product exists…but it seems incredibly useful!
Well done, too.