Impact of the New Show HN Section on Show HN Submissions

Did this feature help or harm Show HN submissions as a whole?

July 14, 2014 · 4 min

Who Performs the Best in Online Classes?

Which types of student characteristics lead to the best performance in online classes? That depends on how you define “performance.”

July 10, 2014 · 6 min

Mapping San Francisco Locations Using Facebook Data

With the data on approximately 8,000 Facebook Places in San Francisco, we can map where San Franciscans are checking-in, and determine what types of locations they like to visit.

April 8, 2014 · 5 min

Does Adding Many Tags to an Instagram Photo Maximize the Number of Likes?

Instagram photos which have the maximum of 30 #tags receive, on average, about three times as many Likes than photos with only a few tags.

March 24, 2014 · 4 min

A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions

After downloading all 1,265,114 Hacker News submissions from the official Hacker News API, I gathered a few interesting statistics which show the true impact of Hacker News.

February 24, 2014 · 8 min