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Monitor the mood states of Hacker News in real time

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51 pointschrisvxd26 comments

It would be cool if the chart would link to a random sample comment for each sentiment, to see how accurate it is.

It's more like a real mood ring if there is no way to verify its accuracy.

Here is a graph depicting desire for accuracy on Hacker News then: http://f.cl.ly/items/0f471x1F3Q063q0Z1e1Z/hn-graph.jpg

What really pisses me off about this application is the apparent lack of anger on HN. Isn't anyone mad anymore? (but perhaps I'll see a spike now?)

That worked surprisingly fast!

On another note, I'm interested in knowing how "confusion" is gauged - I suspect it might be picking up those asking for clarification as well as those who are truly confused. There seems to be too much confusion for this crowd (unless it's only measuring me).

> There seems to be too much confusion

    I can't get no relief

    Businessmen, they drink my wine
    Plowmen dig my earth

    None of them along the line
    know what any of it is worth

As a mature audience who understand the fine tones of life, perhaps we simply phrase our statements as questions?

And suddenly a giant spike in confusion ... that needs a bit of tuning.

Whenever I post something in anger it gets downvoted, so that may be the issue?

I don't actually want to see more anger here ... I just wanted to see if I could influence the graph.

Apparently we're confused most of the time.

Confusion is negative, so actually we're very sure of ourselves ;)

Rename that to curious and I get it, confused seems a bit heavy

Very cool - would you mind elaborating on the tools you used to analyze the sentiment? Any open source ones / is the source available for reuse? Would love to apply this to other areas.

The tools are bespoke, and right now I don't plan on open sourcing them. I can't say what the future holds though, so watch this space.

Interesting. Do you have any more details about the used algorithms?

Afraid I can't at this stage

Cool tool! One thing I really hate about it (in an entirely exaggerated way) is how the stupid filters reset themselves every few seconds if you're in live mode.

Yeaaah.. me too... but MVP!

I find colors of the chart very confusing. IMO red should be anger and blue should be calm. Then according to mood adjust coloring from blue to red.

What is the supposed meaning of the minus mood? Please explain the points: one, elation +0.25, another point: elation -0.67.

Really nice tool, would be nice to be able to use the tool along with a Hashtag or a @username. Keep up the good work!

Would be interesting to see if it is anything to do with what part of the world is posting at a certain time.

Which library you used for drawing charts? Looks slick.

http://nvd3.org/ - Reusable charts for D3.js

http://d3js.org/ - Data driven documents

What he said... nvd3 and d3

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