https://github.com/nguyendangxuanlinh/hacker_news_posts
https://github.com/nguyendangxuanlinh/hacker_news_posts
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/nguyendangxuanlinh/hacker_news_posts
- Owner: NguyenDangXuanLinh
- Created: 2023-10-04T06:44:25.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-10-09T04:31:02.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-30T13:32:43.116Z (5 months ago)
- Language: Jupyter Notebook
- Size: 1.55 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Hacker News Exploration
Hacker News is a site started by the startup incubator Y Combinator, where user-submitted stories (known as "posts") receive votes and comments, similar to reddit. Hacker News is extremely popular in technology and startup circles, and posts that make it to the top of the Hacker News listings can get hundreds of thousands of visitors as a result.
# Data Dictionary
id: the unique identifier from Hacker News for the post
title: the title of the post
url: the URL that the posts links to, if the post has a URL
num_points: the number of points the post acquired, calculated as the total number of upvotes minus the total number of downvotes
num_comments: the number of comments on the post
author: the username of the person who submitted the post
created_at: the date and time of the post's submission
# Project's Aim
In this project, we analyzed ask posts and show posts to determine which type of post and time receive the most comments on average.
# Python skills
Object-oriented programming
Dates and times
Extract Ask HN and Show HN posts
The relationship between ask posts and comments by hour created
Sorting Values from a List of Lists