Poll: How old are you?

Re:Poll: How old are you? by asjo on Sunday March 15, 2009 @08:08PM (#517453)

Graph, updated every hour: http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/age.png (until I kill the cronjob :-))

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by DanielBMarkham on Sunday March 15, 2009 @08:10PM (#517457)

Great minds think alike! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517447

(EDIT) I deleted my comment, because I like your chron idea much better (BTW, what'd you use for the scraping?)

Here's the direct link.

http://www.whattofix.com/images/HNUsersByAge.jpg

Like I said in the original, glad to update it if anybody likes the 3-D that much better.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by asjo on Sunday March 15, 2009 @08:23PM (#517476)

Cool! I didn't see yours before posting mine... (I get a 403 Forbidden currently?)

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by DanielBMarkham on Sunday March 15, 2009 @08:28PM (#517481)

Yeah. You have to hit refresh to see the graph. It won't work if the referrer is an outside site. Had too many people lifting bandwidth and needed to stop it.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by aneesh on Sunday March 15, 2009 @08:51PM (#517520)

Cool. What are you using to draw the graph?

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by asjo on Monday March 16, 2009 @02:27AM (#517850)

I'm using curl to get the page, piping it into a simple one-off Perl-script that produces a comma-separated file, which in turn is read by a tiny R script, which then produces the graph.

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by whatusername on Monday March 16, 2009 @10:20AM (#518172)

you don't happen to still have the hourly scrapes do you? A line graph showing when age-groups were online/voting might be of interest. (I noticed that 20-24 was first, and has dropped to 2nd now)

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Re:Poll: How old are you? by asjo on Monday March 16, 2009 @03:39PM (#518632)

No, it was a quick hack late at night, and I didn't think of archiving the data - sorry.

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