Analysing Hacker News Metadata with R

In plain words

This resource provides R code examples for analyzing Hacker News metadata, including extracting top domains and commenters, charting user activity patterns, and detecting outliers. It features visualizations and runnable code that users can execute locally. Designed for data enthusiasts and R users interested in exploring Hacker News trends and user behavior through statistical analysis and data visualization.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

This page provides a set of examples showing how you can extract various statistics from Hacker News metadata using R : simple statistics such as top domains and top commenters as well as more complex things like charting activity patterns of specific users and activity outlier detection . You can use the thumbnails to scroll down and just take a quick look at the charts or you can go through the whole document and even run the code on your machine for the full experience. About me and disclaimer You can find more about me on my homepage . I'm interested in data and visualisation. I learned R while creating the examples below so don't take them for granted. If you notice any errors/mistakes…from vrepsys.github.io

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