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246 sats \ 2 replies \ @Design_r 28 Feb \ on: The data to help you become a better Stacker ⚡ meta
Really impressive, and thank you for sharing all this work with the community.
Can I ask what was your process doing so? Which tools did you use? How did you design those clean and tidy charts? Did you access SN data via APIs or somehow elsewhere?
I could certainly improve the workflow and automate a lot more if I wanted a live dashboard or to do this regularly, but without any API this is what was used to get the job done for now:
- visit stacker.news front page as I mentioned above under 'notes'
- tap 'more' button to see more than 21 posts at a time. repeat 390 times
- right-click on page and save .html file locally
- created a python script that recursively spits out and renders all the front-end post content (title, author, territories, sats, cowboy hat, comments etc) into a csv
- copy that CSV into a spreadsheet with new columns with formulas to sort and categorise content better
- create a bunch of pivot tables & graphs in said spreadsheet
- screenshot those graphs & upload to SN
If I was to make this a continued process, I would automate Steps 2 and 5 - making sure the data got pushed to Tableau or something as capable. For a one-off exercise like this however, it's more than sufficient.
And next time I want to click a button 390+ times to get an updated view, I can simply paste the data over the existing spreadsheet data and all the pivot tables automatically update.