It might be even more interesting to do comparisons between subreddits and comparisons between hashtags or followers of certain figures.
Also do you have a link to the source?
Keep up the good stuff!
It might be even more interesting to do comparisons between subreddits and comparisons between hashtags or followers of certain figures.
Also do you have a link to the source?
Keep up the good stuff!
I have been thinking about subreddits and hashtags, but I'm not sure what would be interesting to people and still have enough statistical significance to update every half-hour/hour. If I were going to release this on Reddit, I'd have probably arranged it as a comparison between all the major subreddits. As for hashtags, their impermanence makes them a difficult measure.
I don't have the source up yet, but it's pretty simple. I just get the json output of /all/comments and get the Twitter streams for the words I'm checking with ntwitter and then do the basic math to analyze it every half hour. I render the page myself with the backlog of values and then send it updated info as I process it, so if you leave the page open, it should keep fresh.