Questions tagged [graphs]
Graphs are a graphical representation of data. Use this tag for questions about charts, maps, visualizations, statistics, trends, etc.
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Map of all Stack Exchange sites (except the three biggest)
I've just made a map of all Stack Exchange sites, except for the three biggest ones:
(A high(er) res png file) (EDIT: there was a PDF file, but for some reason it was eating more than 1 GB of memory, ...
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Sizes and overlaps of communities on the sites
This might be totally useless, but I wanted to join the league of people who use the Google chart API and the data dump to create pretty pictures.
So I took a look at the relative sizes of the "...
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Visualisation of Stack Overflow Tag relationships [closed]
Inspired by a previous meta question on tag trending, my 'Sunday afternoon' project was to plot the relationship between the most popular tags on Stack Overflow. The result is quite pretty:
You can ...
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Stack Exchange Community Statistics
Many Meta users have asked for statistics that involve data that isn't available through the public data dumps (especially voting-related stats).
In conjunction with the SE team, I will be bringing ...
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Add Graphviz support to Markdown
The Request
This is a request to add Graphviz (DOT) support to Markdown. This will allow us to easily embed editable and indexable graphs in questions and answers. I imagine it will be particularly ...
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Tag trends by week
Using the data dump, I've put together some tag trend graphs that show the rate of tagged questions over time. Below are some samples, there are many more on the linked page. I can update the page ...
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Stack Overflow stats graphs
Once the Stack Overflow data dump became available, I put together a data analysis script and created some graphs of SO activity and history. I thought this new meta site would be an appropriate place ...
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Interactive tag trend comparison page
My Sunday afternoon project this weekend was to add a bit of jQuery pixie dust to the tag trend graph page. The new Stack Overflow Tag Trends page allows you to choose which tags to compare and ...
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What OpenID providers should we feature on the /login page?
I did a quick query to see what the current breakdown of OpenID providers is across Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User (but not Meta, as I figured that'd be 100% overlap):
google.com ...
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Graph of tag popularity on stats page
I think it would be cool if we could see the growth of the number of question/amount of activity of various tags as a graph on the stats page.
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StackOverflow User Statistics [closed]
A few days ago I had a post that provided data scraped from the profile pages of over 23,000 StackOverflow users with the intention of having the community mine the database and produce interesting ...
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Meta Stack Overflow statistics graphs
For the first time, I've created statistics graphs for meta.stackoverflow.com. Here's a couple of the distinctive "this must be meta" graphs:
Many of the graphs are disrupted a bit prior to the date ...
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Users who can't write good posts ≠ users who want to write good posts
I recently came across this post, which states (emphasis mine):
..The problem that became evident was that people who want to learn how to write a good question and people who can't write a good ...
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Show a graph depicting the review progress over time
The new review tool is very well thought through and even catches "old stuff" which isn't acceptable judging from the quality demands that we expect today in SO.
I was just wondering if this is a ...
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Charts in the data explorer
I don't know whether the data explorer was created for SOFU, obviously if it wasn't this is impractical. Would it be possible to add an option to display the results as a chart?
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Accepted answer statistics graphs
There's been some discussion on meta recently about accepted answer rates. I've added two new graphs to my stackoverflow graphs page:
The first shows how the rate of questions that have accepted ...
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Provide live graphs in review to motivate people
I think we all liked Shog9's graphs for the close queue..
I also think that if we would have live graphs like the one above or something that would show in the same graph how many questions are ...
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Are there ways to visualize the dynamics of a Stack Exchange site?
I'm thinking of something like Gource that could be applied to the Stack Exchange family of sites. What do you think?
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Enable SEDE graph image to be saved or copied
When graphing data on SEDE, eg this example, right-clicking on the image and selecting either "Save as file" or "Copy image" both result in a totally black rectangle (albeit of the ...
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Graphing lots of data crashes my browser
I wanted to run a Data Explorer query to return a large amount of data so I could export the lot to CSV. Problem is, the page is crashing my machine - the query triggers graphing, and the graphing ...
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what does each dot represent on the reputation chart?
I was just wondering (out of interest) what each dot represents on the reputation chart?
Is it activity on a question on a particular day/week?
If it is a question would it be possible to somehow ...
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Is there a way to see a graph of visitor count over time for a SE site?
Over on Japanese Language and Usage we're wondering if our number of visitors per day has increased much since we came out of Private Beta. Is there a way to see a visualization of this?
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Make SEDE graphing easier
SEDE is generally great, but the one thing that keeps bugging me about it is its graphing support. The given example of graphing in the SEDE help is graphing the number of posts for each score. ...
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What component does Stack Overflow use to generate graphs/charts?
What component does Stack Overflow use to generate graphs/charts, like the one used to show reputation history?
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Can we have a line of best fit on Area 51 graphs
Here's a proposal I'm excited about:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1/white-hat-seo
As it stands I don't really know how long it will be until the beta. How about trying to estimate this?...
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any interesting graphs of SO user interconnectedness?
Has anybody used the SO db dumps to generate graphs showing how users are interconnected via their questions and answers, or related to tags?
I'm curious to see how "clumpy" people tend to be... i.e.,...
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SEDE using graph with number, string, number [, number ...]
The query use of certain given tags in the last quarters returns a format that according my understanding of the graphing help should be suitable to be rendered as a graph: number, string, number [, ...
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Projection of future traffic for major programming languages
I have found from around 2017 or 2018, the following graph made by Stack Overflow:
Where could I find a more recent version?
I have looked at 2021 Developer Survey and didn't see anything related (...
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SEDE Graph add column names as label for axis
This graph result shows number of post (y-axis) over the last months (x-axis).
The query result has this format
MonthsAgo | TagName | NrOfPosts
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What chart types should SEDE support?
In a comment on another post, Tim Stone said this:
FWIW, adding more powerful graphing support is on the todo list, so I'd be interested in hearing different use cases and suggested ways of picking ...
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Graph describing how does community respond to your activity
I was wondering at what ration and characteristic the community responds to the actions of the user. I have some rough estimation:
Rough indeed. I'd be surely be able to create similar graphs (...
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Which graphing library does Stack Exchange use?
Viewing reputation changes on Stack Overflow produces a nice graph which can be 'zoomed in' on to view more detailed reputation changes, for example. Is this using a library or is it custom written? ...
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I really liked the reputation line-graph; can we get something similar back?
I really liked the reputation line-graph, but I understand it was problematic. Is there any way that we get something similar back?
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Graph reputation across all sites
In select places on Area51 you can see your total reputation, and on each SE site you can see a temporal graph of your reputation for that site. Is there any way to see a temporal graph of your total ...
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What site for asking about charts?
So far, I have known four sites to ask about charts: Graphic Design, Cross Validated, Academia and User Experience. Except Graphic Design which is more obviously that it is about the graphic, not the ...
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How can I access history of a SO tag?
I'm interested in graphs showing the number of questions on given SO tag over time.
Are these data available?
Łukasz Lew
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How to get chart of stackoverflow data?
I'd like to get a chart representing various SO data. Is this possible and if so, how?
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Where can I ask about my graph algorithm?
I am a programmer, but not a researcher; my level is below PhD.
I thought about extending the idea of smart pointers (where shared pointers counts references, but not releases cycles) to be fully ...
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Strange tooltip positioning on the site analytics page [duplicate]
https://ru.stackoverflow.com/site-analytics
I guess, the tooltip should appear near the cursor.
Spec: Win7 (64-bit), Firefox 65.0.1 (64-bit).
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Is the reputation graph misrepresenting the numbers?
My reputation graph shows a linear progress from August 5 to yesterday, but the truth is the numbers don't quite match up.
reputation graph http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8265/graphs.png
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"All posts" incorrect displayed on graph on analytics page [duplicate]
I have access only to SOru analytics (https://ru.stackoverflow.com/site-analytics), so can provide gif only from here.
Все сообщения = all posts.
Вопросы = questions.
Ответы = answers.
I guess ...
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Reputation graph on profile page is un-draggable [duplicate]
Reputation graph on profile page is un-draggable. Currently displaying data only for last 30 days.
Observed on Google chrome Version 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) (OS - Win 10)
Can this be something ...
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How to see reputation gain by questions or answers?
Is there a way I can see my reputation gain by my Questions and Answers separately?
Currently the "Reputation History" chart shows me both together, so I don't know which ones I'm better at!
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Percentage of closed questions
Is there a statistic somewhere that shows percentage of closed questions on basis of new questions ? Would be nice in a graphic form, but that isn't that important.
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SEDE Extend graph support
I created this query which counts the number of post in a certain timeperiod for given tags. The result is pivoted.
I would like the graphing support to be extended to support pivoted-results of the ...
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Technology used for charts in Stack* [duplicate]
I am wondering what technology is used in Stack Exchange to create the graphs like "reputation graph" in the network profile. Is it Highcharts?
