Comments on: It sure ain’t pretty

By: Alanas Anikonis

Alanas Anikonis — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:56:42 +0000

You need to realize that the forum indexer is only from April 2009 until today, and I didn’t run any indexing for almost 2 months now, so yes, there are lots and lots of holes.
The three main forums that get indexed are English General, Question forum and Game development. Anything else is just a bonus :)

I do have a vision on how to fetch almost “everything”. Currently I am lacking a standalone and powerful enough server, so I can’t do anything.

By: Herb Acosta

Herb Acosta — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:06:23 +0000

Ok, well it still seems like a good portion could be missing, I searched for the amount of posts that I’ve made and it only returned like 129 results, which is WAY off lol. What about all the different city forums? I frequent Toronto and NY forums, not sure if you do.

By: Alanas Anikonis

Alanas Anikonis — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:30:12 +0000

No, what it seems like is that the Turkish are the ones starting a majority of all threads. English is a minority language in the forums.

By: Herb Acosta

Herb Acosta — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:37 +0000

So I’m back to the Forum index bit :P

It seems like the only threads that you read are from Turkish, but a good portion of the user base writes in English which means the forum database is extremely skewed. Which leads me to my previous post, when would you make the indexing script available to the public.

If not only to a few select people you can trust, like me lol.

By: santi_monse

santi_monse — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:11:27 +0000

Correct link is the complete one:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Integrate+4-x^2+from+-2+to+2

[copy and paste]

By: santi_monse

santi_monse — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:10:46 +0000

I understand, sometimes I do graphics and stats for my own amusement too :)

Unfortunately, I don’t know how to program on Java, only basic C++ =P .. The first of your graphs is very nice, it reminds me the graphs of the software Mathematica:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Integrate+4-x^2+from+-2+to+2

Good luck, thanks for the answer!

By: Alanas Anikonis

Alanas Anikonis — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:35:15 +0000

Thanks, I mainly do these graphs for my own amusement (seriously :D).

I actually use a Java graphing library called JFree (can be obtained from http://www.jfree.org), and create images with my custom made servlets and JSP (Java Server Pages). So it’s really not something everyone can “just use”, you have to program it.

By: santi_monse

santi_monse — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:17:24 +0000

Great Job! :)

BTW, what software did you use to create that first graph?