Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

January 9, 2015

Frequently brought up topics in #haskell [Do you have a frequency-based FAQ?]

Filed under: Functional Programming,Haskell — Patrick Durusau @ 5:32 pm

Frequently brought up topics in #haskell by David Luposchainsky.

From the webpage:

(This is like an FAQ, except that the F stands for frequently instead of someone thought this might be worth mentioning.)

Ouch!

David doesn’t say how he determined the frequency of these topics but it does suggest a number of interesting data mining and curation projects.

Where would you go to find and measure the frequency of questions on particular issues?

My first thought was StackOverflow. I didn’t see any obvious way to download their data so I pinged the admin team.

While waiting for a response, I searched and found:

Stack Exchange Data Dump (September 26, 2014) at the Internet Archive.

How cool is that?! You can get the “big” file or individual files. Well, I don’t see “computer science” listed as a separate file so I assume that would require downloading the “big” file.

Rather than a “worth mentioning” FAQ you could have a “frequently” mentioned based FAQ for a large number of areas.

The further you move away from the dump date, the less accurate your “frequency,” and I don’t know how much of an impact that would have.

Still, has a great deal of promise!

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