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Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News by sant0sk1 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @04:23PM (#2671783)
Good point. I wasn't really thinking about normalization as I was more interested in comparing trends on multiple terms, but I don't think it'd be too much work to change the algorithm to account for HN's growth.
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Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News by hammock on Sunday June 19, 2011 @05:01PM (#2671890)
The trends on multiple terms are actually easier to read after normalization anyway. Right now the power-law curve growth of HN in total is making it hard to read the difference in growth between, say, FB and twitter. Easier for our brains to process if you took the ln() of them - which is definitely the fastest way to fix the charts - or normalized in some other way.
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Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News by suking on Sunday June 19, 2011 @04:36PM (#2671822)
Yah, you could easily do it by total # of posts to account for the growth. Cool stuff man.
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