The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6 Million Hacker News Comments

Hopefully, these comments will answer whether Hacker News is experiencing a rise in quality, or if the complaints levied against HN are valid.

October 6, 2014 · 9 min

The Statistical Difference Between 1-Star and 5-Star Reviews on Yelp

It can be proven that language has a strong statistical effect on review ratings, but that is intuitive enough. How have review ratings changed?

September 23, 2014 · 7 min

The Data From Our Comments to the FCC About Net Neutrality

The FCC released a dataset of about 450,000 comments against net neutrality. Looking at the data behind these comments, it is clear to see that the entire country is passionate against the rule changes to net neutrality.

August 8, 2014 · 6 min

The Wikipedia Entries Which Are Most-Edited by Members of the U.S. Congress

Saying that the results were surprising would be the understatement of the century.

July 15, 2014 · 4 min

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