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Wonderful idea, but I'd like to see this with:

* Objectively ranked categories based on word usage, not author-provided tags

* Legible graphs with fewer colors

* Analysis that weights comments by karma (or, better, a reasonable non-linear function on karma)

* Open source for reproducibility and better outside critique

Edit: In fact, I'd like to see it enough that I might build it. Any other ideas?

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I'd be interested in a breakdown of the 10 or so most popular source sites on a (say) month-by-month basis. You'd expect to see a lot of articles referencing Google, techcrunch, HN and the like but I'm also surprised by the number of articles from the NY Times, WSJ and such.

Maybe determine "popularity" first by number of articles and then again by score.

I'll see if I can do something like that.

I have to do all kinds of tricky date parsing to figure out when an item was posted so this is not as easy as it seems at first glance.

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