1) How often (in absolute and relative terms) a given forum topic appears with another given topic
2) Visualizing the popularity of various tags
An updated Forum scrape including the full text and attributes of 10k-ish posts as of Christmas, ’22
See the data without full text in Google Sheets here
Post explaining version 1.0 from a few months back
From the data in no. 2, a few effortposts that never garnered an accordant amount of attention (qualitatively filtered from posts with (1) long read times (2) modest positive karma (3) not a ton of comments.
A few Forum meta things you might find useful or interesting:
Two super basic interactive data viz apps
1) How often (in absolute and relative terms) a given forum topic appears with another given topic
2) Visualizing the popularity of various tags
An updated Forum scrape including the full text and attributes of 10k-ish posts as of Christmas, ’22
See the data without full text in Google Sheets here
Post explaining version 1.0 from a few months back
From the data in no. 2, a few effortposts that never garnered an accordant amount of attention (qualitatively filtered from posts with (1) long read times (2) modest positive karma (3) not a ton of comments.
Columns labels should be (left to right):
Title/link
Author(s)
Date posted
Karma (as of a week ago)
Comments (as of a week ago)
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