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Re: Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

#31

Nice site. Not that it matters but I'm always curious, what's it built with?

Python, Django, jQuery and Highcharts

FYI, we run an app that used to use Highcharts too, but we discovered flot and never looked back: http://code.google.com/p/flot/ Wanted to share in case that's useful to you, too! (In particular, it will come in handy if you ever need to develop a web app for commercial purposes, as Highcharts has a tricky licensing scheme for web apps.)

Re: Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

#33

Creator here, I would love to hear any feedback you all have. I also have around 3 months worth of historical data if anyone is interested or has a cool idea.

All the curves are in a giant jumble at the top and are nearly indistinguishable from each other.

Perhaps a log scale on the y-axis would improve readability?

Re: Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Python, Django, jQuery and Highcharts

FYI, we run an app that used to use Highcharts too, but we discovered flot and never looked back: http://code.google.com/p/flot/ Wanted to share in case that's useful to you, too! (In particular, it will come in handy if you ever need to develop a web app for commercial purposes, as Highcharts has a tricky licensing scheme for web apps.)

Frankly, having used flot for http://burntbrunch.github.com/Silk-Rabbit-Hole/html/index.ht..., I wouldn't recommend it. It was a complete pain to do tooltips, since flot insists on drawing them with divs.

gRaphael looks a lot more customizable.

Re: Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

#36
Updated:

- Changed the graph to a log scale

- Added the ability to compare multiple stories from the list, you can also query them directly in the url like: http://hnrankings.info/4055256,4056649/

- Added timestamp to the tooltip

A search feature and some long term stats are next on my list

Re: Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

#37

Curious, when I look at the graph for this very item, the updates stop a couple of hours ago: http://hnrankings.info/4058277/ Any reason?

Thanks, good catch. Something weird happened with memcached when I resized the server. Restarting the service fixed it

Re: Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

#38

Updated: - Changed the graph to a log scale - Added the ability to compare multiple stories from the list, you can also query them directly in the url like: http://hnrankings.info/4055256,4056649/ - Added timestamp to the tooltip A search feature and some long term stats are next on my list

Love your responsiveness - thank you.

Some feedback: the graph no longer fits on my screen vertically - the bottom gets lost. Granted, I don't have a huge screen here, but the previous version fitted nicely.

Added in edit: I see you've fixed that now - thanks.

Re: Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

#39
Really like. May help explain how some submissions trend better than others. Think that similar submissions should be aggregated rather than duplicated.

One interesting use for the data may be trending user stats - showing karma points from submissions and comments by day or week.

Re: Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate

#40

Creator here, I would love to hear any feedback you all have. I also have around 3 months worth of historical data if anyone is interested or has a cool idea.

It's probably because I'm colorblind, but I find it hard to follow the lines in the default chart even when selected/highlighted. Can you increase the width of the selected line a little bit more?
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