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

How Many #nofilter Instagram Photos Actually Have No Filter?

Not all of them.

February 10, 2014 · 1 min

Probabilistically Generating GitHub Projects

Perl interface to Git repositories via Ruby. Brute force your OpenERP data integration with flatfiles.

November 29, 2013 · 2 min

Reddit is Growing Slowly, but Surely

I analyzed the daily number of submissions from over two years to see which events, if any, have affected Reddit’s growth rate. As it turns out, Reddit grows by itself.

November 18, 2013 · 2 min