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!