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date 2010-03-08
tags All Programming Startups HasDataset
title HackerNews Data: Visits as a Function of Karma

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If a post on HackerNews gets more points, it gets more visits.
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But how much more? That's what Murkin wanted to know.
 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175277 Murkin

I've submitted over 10 articles from this site to HackerNews and I pulled the data from my top 5 posts (in terms of visits referred by HackerNews) from Google Analytics.

Here's how it looks if you plot visits by karma score:

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The Pearson Correlation is high: 0.894. Here's the raw data:

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  Karma,Visits,Page
  53,3389,<a href="twelve-tips-to-master-programming-faster.html">/twelve_tips_to_master_programming_faster</a>
  54,2075,<a href="code/use-rsync-to-deploy-your-website.html">/code/use_rsync_to_deploy_your_website</a>
  54,1688,<a href="unfeatures.html">/unfeatures</a>
  34,1588,<a href="flee-the-bubble.html">/flee_the_bubble</a>
  25,1462,<a href="make-something-40-of-your-customers-must-have.html">/make_something_40_of_your_customers_must_have</a>
  14,1056,<a href="when-forced-to-wait-wait.html">/when_forced_to_wait_wait</a>
  4,214,<a href="diversification-in-startups.html">/diversification_in_startups</a>
  1,146,<a href="seo-made-easy-lumps.html">/seo_made_easy_lumps</a>
  1,36,<a href="dont-flip-the-bozo-bit.html">/dont_flip_the_bozo_bit</a>

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