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• Semifinalist and Best Product Finalist Spreadsheet

  PK • 08/25/2015 at 05:26 • 0 comments

  To coincide with Hackaday releasing today's Semifinalist and Best Product Finalist lists, we've created a new spreadsheet which should include all of the finalists:

  2015 Hackaday Prize Semifinalist and Best Product Finalist Spreadsheet
  

  Congratulations!

• Sortable and Searchable Project Spreadsheet

  PK • 08/21/2015 at 04:28 • 4 comments

  Over the last two days, we created a list of all of the projects tagged with the correct tags for the 2015 Hackaday Prize or Best Product*. You can find our spreadsheet here:

  ( Editor: This is now archived. 2015 Hackaday Prize and Best Product Spreadsheet.)

  *(Note we're estimating if projects qualify based on the tags and our scraping - our columns on Best Product and the Quarterfinals are not canonical. Please let us know if you see an entry mislabeled.)
  

• Project Log Creation Graphs

  Blecky • 08/20/2015 at 04:50 • 0 comments

  Projects Added Per Day:

  Data - https://gist.github.com/anonymous/747e8acd2fae96421a93

  Total Number of Projects:

  Data - https://gist.github.com/anonymous/00ff97cfc206f78afe47
  

  The data was obtained from the "Created on" project date and the graphs were scaled to the duration of the prize (so projects added before this aren't shown in the first graph).

  While there is a small inflection at the end, the growth rate was pretty steady this year. Can anyone name the spike events?

• Tag Cloud

  Blecky • 08/19/2015 at 03:25 • 0 comments

  And something different:

  And if you hate angles:

  Generated using tagxedo.

  Word list here - https://gist.github.com/alpha-ninja/64a99368d230a22f2af2

• Top 100 of all 2015 Hackaday Prize entries

  RoGeorge • 08/18/2015 at 10:32 • 0 comments

  A quick and dirty Top 100 by copy/paste the projects webpage text, then arrange the data in a spreadsheet pivot table

  Grand Totals
  Authors: 672
  Projects: 910
  Comments: 3 169
  Skulls: 7 947
  Followers: 22 421
  View Count: 1 544 197

  Top 100 projects and authors, by skulls, followers, views or comments

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• Analyzing The 2015 Hackaday Prize From Your Console!

  PK • 08/18/2015 at 08:03 • 2 comments

  Have a *NIX based system? I've got some bash magic here to help you examine the Hackaday Prize 2015 entries, thanks to @alpha_ninja dumping all of the data as of 8/17/2015 into Github.

  Yes, there are faster ways to do these things - but it's 2015 and these commands are fast enough for our purposes:

  git clone https://github.com/alpha-ninja/had-data.git
  cd had-data/had
  
  # First, get all L.txt files, (which is the project log dump)
  ls *L.txt | tr '\n' '\n' > filenames
  
  # Quick cut - how many projects had > 3 logs?
  
  for fn in `cat filenames`; do filelogs=$(grep -i "#discussion-list" $fn | grep -i "log" | wc -l); if [ $filelogs -gt 3 ] ; then echo $fn ; fi; done | wc -l
  # Blecky, alpha_ninja and I all get 406
  
  # Now do video references > 0 and logs > 3
  
  for fn in `cat filenames`; do filelogs=$(grep -i "#discussion-list" $fn | grep -i "log" | wc -l); videos=$(grep -Ei -e youtube -e youkou -e video $fn | wc -l); if [ $filelogs -gt 3 ] && [ $videos -gt 0 ] ; then echo $fn ; fi; done | wc -l
  
  # (Remove wc -l to see the file names)
  # I got 219, which is lower than @Blecky and @alpha_ninja; use their lists most likely.
  
  # Now, best product.  It is self-selected, so put everything in a file.
  
  grep -i "bestproduct" * | grep "submissions" | awk -F'.' '{print $1}' > bproduct
  
  # Now loop and search for greater than 7 logs and greater than one references to video
  
  for fn in `cat bproduct`;  do fn2=L.txt; fnold=$fn; fn=$fn$fn2;  videos=$(grep -Ei -e youtube -e youkou -e video -e youtu $fn | wc -l); filelogs=$(grep -i "#discussion-list" $fn | grep -i "log" | wc -l); if [ $videos -gt 1 ] && [ $filelogs -gt 7 ];  then echo $fnold ;  fi;  done | wc -l
  
  # I get 20 - check my work
  

  Definitely check my work, and remove the "wc -l" if you want to see individual IDs (to check if it matches up with projects you know qualified, for example).

  Have fun!
  

• Insights From Amazon Machine Learning

  Frank Vigilante • 06/18/2015 at 05:59 • 10 comments

  I took the most recent CSV (which does not include the most recent data on views), removed some projects with irregular data, removed some attributes that I did not want in the analysis, and uploaded the data into a S3 bucket on Amazon Web Services.

  I then created an Amazon Machine Learning model with the modified CSV. Of the attributes included in the analysis, I decided that I most wanted to analyze the factors to determine the likelihood of not just winning a prize, but winning multiple prizes. So I set the "Prize Count" attribute as the Target. Below is a summary of the stats for the numerical categories:

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• Most Wanted Hackaday Top 10 Lists

  frankstripod • 06/10/2015 at 23:30 • 12 comments

  (Spoiler Alert: This may contain the future finalists)

  This was easy to put together from the last log. The views:skulls suggestion was not as helpful as expected, but I think the last list "Top 10 Number of Times in Top 10 Lists" is a good indicator of whats happening here.

  The Unofficial Top 10 Lists of the Hackaday Prize Prizewinners So Far:

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• A Better Sheet

  frankstripod • 06/10/2015 at 09:17 • 1 comment

  A new and improved spreadsheet is now sorted by project, instead of by contest, making it easier to sort and analyze (no more double entries!) Get the spreadsheet, it looks much better. Download the new one here. It has presorted sheets for most Skulls, most Followers, and the new column sorted by a Views to Skulls ratio, with the data that was available (see feedback 6-10-2015.)
  Someone won five times. You can find other information hidden in here also.
  

  Column Names:
  Project Name, Views, Comments, Followers, Skulls, Number of Entries, Data collection date, Number of Wins, Win Dates, and Views:Skulls.

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• Want to Hack the Hackaday Prize?

  frankstripod • 06/08/2015 at 11:52 • 0 comments

  Update: I added that stubborn LibreOffice pie chart at the end ;)
  

  What does it take to be a winner? Getting an entry in early sure helps.
  I think projects with pictures, videos, and clear details, look like they get more attention.

  Here is the competition, see if you can find a pattern. Congratulations to all you winners!

  The unofficial list of winners projects with views, comments, followers, skulls, and some with number of projects entered by the same hacker:

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