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Analysis of dev.to comment frequency over the lifetime of a post

Peter Kim Frank on August 17, 2018

What / Why I wanted to take a high-level look at when DEV comments are created relative to the thread they're posted on. DEV members en...
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Ryan Palo

Yaaas! I've been dreaming of the day I can do data analysis on the Dev.to data :) Also, what's up with the weird bump of comments on day 16? Maybe that's the average amount of days it takes before a post is tweeted out by the Twitter account.

Neat!

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Ben Halpern

Yeah that is funny. This isn’t the largest data set in the world, could be affected by one big outlier.

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Ben Halpern

In the future I imagine we'll probably be able to open source anonymized data sets to go along with the code, so the whole community can play around like this.

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Malik Benkirane

This is a very good idea : )
Can't wait for that to happen.
I would really get into that project but I should probably first get closer to the existing API so to the said data.

@pkfrank I would love to know the technicals details you've been through in steps 1 & 2 grabbing data or any ressource you started with should be enough though. Awesome initiative BTW. It was fun to discover 👍