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It looks like there are too many "unspecified" articles to learn much from this visualization, other than a moderate decrease in the number of articles in your
by gambling8nt 17y ago
It looks like there are too many "unspecified" articles to learn much from this visualization, other than a moderate decrease in the number of articles in your "startup" category, supplanted largely by "ask" topics--a trend that largely leveled off early in the x-axis on this graph (which would be dramatically more useful if it had some amount of real-time benchmarks to give some sense of scale).
- wallflower 17y agoFor unspecified, possibly could run the unspecified URLs through bit.ly to get the meta description/keywords. Example: (Is Amazon EC2 oversubscribed) http://api.bit.ly/info?version=2.0.1&hash=83VrYk&login=bitlyapidemo&apiKey=R_0da49e0a9118ff35f52f629d2d71bf07 http://api.bit.ly/info?version=2.0.1&hash=83VrYk&log...
- jacquesm 17y agoSee the text in the article about the 'unspecified'. As for the scale, it doesn't get much more precise than this, the only concession to legibility is to stretch the graph horizontally because otherwise it would be only 138 pixels wide, vertical is very close to one posting per pixel. As the volume of postings on news.ycombinator increases due to increased traffic to the site the graph will stretch more further to the right. This could be counteracted by changing the algorithm to 'bin' more posts to the right hand side to get for instance one month per bin, but in practice the outcome would be the same, you'd just have another weighting to do to get the Y-axis of the bins to line up.