#dev 2024-11-12

2024-11-12 UTC
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capjamesg[d] paotsaq I am unsure if I will publish it right now.
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capjamesg[d] I don't have a complete idea in mind of exactly what I want to present.
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paotsaq of course! I was just wondering which path you were taking. it seems like an interesting idea
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capjamesg[d] The word ratios are good in theory but the numbers are less human friendly.
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capjamesg[d] (I was inspired by Google Books ngrams using % of corpora, but their number is similarly incomprehensible.)
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paotsaq I like how 'one' appears so much and I wondered whether in the context of numbers or as in, eg., 'one must do...
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capjamesg[d] My initial idea was to show ratios because trends would be more interesting, but showing word counts doesn't limit other ways to show trends.
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capjamesg[d] The process is as follows: (i) count all words in 2024 and 2023 articles, in two separate counts; (ii) count all words by date ("coffee" appears N times on YYYY-MM-DD), for use in the trend lines; (iii) fill in any gaps so that all trend lines show the last 365 days, with 0 set as the word count for each day if the word wasn't used on that day; (iv) create a HTML page with a table to present the data.
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capjamesg[d] I am curious about how to do a year in review that's in the style of Spotify Wrapped.
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capjamesg[d] Since I do a lot of writing, I thought there could be some fun stats to highlight!
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capjamesg[d] I like the information density of the table.
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capjamesg[d] There is so much that can be learned from the sparklines.
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capjamesg[d] (i.e. "search" picks up in the second half of the year, when I start building more search projects again.)
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capjamesg[d] A good second step to the analyses above would be to show sentences that use a word as an example, but now I'd be getting in the realm of building a full exploration tool 😂
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paotsaq hmm. I see
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paotsaq yeah, the trend lines is an interesting visualization — and you add 0 for days in which you wrote, but not the word, yes? not for every calendar year
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paotsaq I like the idea
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capjamesg[d] I add 0 for all days, so each trend line shows the days from January 1st, 2024 to today.
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capjamesg[d] This ensures that trends can be compared from graph to graph.
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paotsaq hmm — that makes sense. Although removing days in which you didn't write at all would probably make the trend line a little shorter
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paotsaq (even though it seems like you write most of the days 😄)
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paotsaq interesting stuff! I might try to do the same on my setup
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capjamesg[d] Yeah!
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capjamesg[d] It was certainly fun to make.
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[mattl] [Joe_Crawford] thank you for introducing me to CSS variables!
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[Joe_Crawford] I am happy to pass them along. They've changed everything for me
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[mattl] https://libre.fm/user/mattl is starting to look better IMO.
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[tantek] CSS variables are how I implemented no-JS-needed theming on my site!
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[aciccarello] They really are a game changer for CSS
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[aciccarello] That and nested styles have made CSS a lot easier to write by hand without needing SASS or similar.
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