This is the first of three articles on an analysis of Hacker News community, utilizing HNProfile.com – a demonstration of the Metacortex platform. The goal is to analyze if there are any political leanings of the Hacker News community. Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – […]
In two previous posts, I discussed the old Easy A website (Easy A alpha) and collecting FOIA requests from many of the largest universities. In this post, I plan to share with you: The website traffic (increase) over the past month How FOIA requested information is added How the grade prediction features work How historic […]
Ever wonder what it would be like to request the grade distributions for every semester, course, and professor at a major university? No? Luckily, you won’t have to. Over the last month, my wife Jennifer and I decided we wanted to get the grade distribution for every university we could using a FOIA requests (template form here)! We […]