Diffbot HackerNews Trend Analyzer
Data
trend analysis
SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.33.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interactive tool is interesting once you learn how to use it
From 1 comment
Had to figure out how to use it ... but interesting once you do! Android vs IPhone on Hackernews frontpage shows spike in iphone on launch dates, but mediocre to no activity for…
tliou on HN
Diffbot API is fantastic for extracting text from webpages
From 1 comment
Funny, I just built a HN article catcher that uses Diffbot to collect and classify submissions from the /new page [1]. I've been a Diffbot fan for quite a while now (although…
mayank on HN
Objections
Hard to figure out how to use it at first
From 1 comment
Had to figure out how to use it ... but interesting once you do! Android vs IPhone on Hackernews frontpage shows spike in iphone on launch dates, but mediocre to no activity for…
tliou on HN
Cannot filter by domain name, only by full subdomain
From 1 comment
Neat! Wish I could select by just domain name (i.e. just nytimes.com rather than dozen or so whatever.nytimes.com subdomains).
minimax on HN
Tag classification needs work
From 1 comment
Funny, I just built a HN article catcher that uses Diffbot to collect and classify submissions from the /new page [1]. I've been a Diffbot fan for quite a while now (although…
mayank on HN
Requests
Share the original dataset
From 1 comment
Huge fan of DiffBot and awesome projects like this. Really cool analysis, thanks for posting. Would be possible for you to post / send me the original data? I have been very…
johncoogan on HN
Filter by domain name rather than subdomain
From 1 comment
Neat! Wish I could select by just domain name (i.e. just nytimes.com rather than dozen or so whatever.nytimes.com subdomains).
minimax on HN
Questions
Why Android gets little frontpage activity compared with iPhone
From 1 comment
Had to figure out how to use it ... but interesting once you do! Android vs IPhone on Hackernews frontpage shows spike in iphone on launch dates, but mediocre to no activity for…
tliou on HN
Alternatives named
BeautifulSoup/NLTK for text extraction
From 1 comment
Funny, I just built a HN article catcher that uses Diffbot to collect and classify submissions from the /new page [1]. I've been a Diffbot fan for quite a while now (although…
mayank on HN