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Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News by byrneseyeview on Sunday June 19, 2011 @06:01PM (#2672046)
Divide by the weighted average change in the number of hits for the 100 most common English words? Basically, add up all the uses of "and," "or," "a," "the," etc. in each period. If Q3 2009 has 4X the sum of those words as Q1 2007, then divide all Q3 2009 results by 4.
Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News by sqrt2 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @06:10PM (#2672075)
Unfortuantely, many common words seem to be filtered by the API. Some however are not, and they show a common growth pattern: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=what%2C+you%2C+here