Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
by sant0sk1 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @07:10PM
(#2672237)
Thanks, I will definitely implement the multiplier as you suggested. I like this better than showing as a % of total.
I'm storing the total hits so I will do the calculations on the client-side, which means I just might be able to add some toggles for the normalization schemes ;)
Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
by retube on Monday June 20, 2011 @05:34AM
(#2673501)
Thinking a little bit more about this, there are of course lots of submissions that don't get voted up or commented on - spam, off-topic, not interesting etc. Maybe you should only use posts that have either at least one upvote or comment, just to filter out the crap.
Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
by sant0sk1 on Monday June 20, 2011 @09:37AM
(#2674085)
A first version of this has been implemented. You can't toggle the normalizations just yet, but I figured I should get the fix out there as soon as I could.
Check the "Learn More" section where I give you props for the help :)
So if say in q1 2011 there were 1m posts + comments, and in q1 2007 10k, multiply the count for q1 2007 by 100.
It would be truly great to have this normalisation optional, e.g option to normalise by comment+post count and maybe also normalise by number of users (could be an interesting comparison). And perhaps have them super-imposed on each other!