Analysing Hacker News Metadata with R
Data
analytics dashboard
SHOW HN2013
45points
6comments
#563of 1,739 in 2013
Top 33%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.
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
Commenters find the analysis super-interesting
From 1 comment
This is super-interesting, thank you for posting. Where did you originally get the data from to do this analysis? Have you been harvesting it yourself?
petenixey on HN
Requests
Public traffic stats for HN to check user growth
From 1 comment
Looks like a few of the top posters stopped using HN as much >2011. Are there some public traffic stats for HN? I'm curious if this was around the time when HN became flooded…
dmix on HN
Questions
Where the data was sourced from and whether it was harvested
From 1 comment
This is super-interesting, thank you for posting. Where did you originally get the data from to do this analysis? Have you been harvesting it yourself?
petenixey on HN
Whether top posters declined after 2011 due to new user influx
From 1 comment
Looks like a few of the top posters stopped using HN as much >2011. Are there some public traffic stats for HN? I'm curious if this was around the time when HN became flooded…
dmix on HN
Alternatives named
Kibana3 dashboard over hckrnews.com data
From 1 comment
See kibana3 dashboard http://hnk.aws.af.cm/index.html , data from hckrnews.com data, elasticsearch qbox.io, hosting in appfog.
ekrsulov on HN