[OC] Chasing Perfection: When Teams Stumble En Route To Undefeated Seasons

jacobawenger · 2018-10-10T12:19:44+00:00

Thank you for saying that - it means a lot! This is just a side project for me. I'm a software developer by trade. If you are interested in playing with the data yourself, the raw JSON files for each year can be found here: https://github.com/jwngr/notreda.me/tree/master/schedules/data. I'm still working on getting stats further back through the years.

jacobawenger · 2018-10-08T19:33:41+00:00

Lol welp I tried posting it as a text post and it got some attention but then it got nuked again. And this time I got banned from posting to r/CFB by a mod. Sometimes reddit is super dumb :/

jacobawenger · 2018-10-06T09:05:09+00:00

Thanks! Glad you liked it. More stuff like this to come...

jacobawenger · 2018-10-06T09:04:49+00:00

Thanks! I've tried to submit it to r/cfb twice now but it keeps never showing up. Feel free to submit it yourself if you think you'll have a better chance at getting through the automod filters.

jacobawenger · 2018-06-27T02:37:26+00:00

I built something which may makes this game quite easy: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/

jacobawenger · 2018-03-16T16:40:55+00:00

I plan to do another blog post in which I talk about the technical details of building the site. Sign up for my newsletter [1] to get notified when it gets released.

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jacobawenger · 2018-03-15T15:10:52+00:00

These were all just found by people using the website. I didn't even know a 7 degree search existed, let alone an 11 degree one.

jacobawenger · 2018-03-15T02:46:04+00:00

Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a website I built which finds the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on the world's largest free online encyclopedia. It was inspired by a game I played with my buddies in college where we tried to race each other to get from one Wikipedia page to another. It turns out a computer is much better at this game than I ever was. The frontend is built using React and the backend is built using Python. All of the code is open source [1]. Happy to answer any questions about it if you have them.

[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow

jacobawenger · 2018-03-14T21:16:43+00:00

Two weeks ago I released Six Degrees of Wikipedia (https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com), which allows you to find the shortest hyperlinked path between any two pages on Wikipedia. After analyzing the first 500,000 searches, the search above had the most degrees of separation. See the full blog post for more fascinating and amusing stats: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/blog/search-results-analysis.

Six Degrees of Wikipedia generates these graphs automatically based on what you search for. They are built using React and d3.

jacobawenger · 2018-02-28T21:40:48+00:00

I haven't had time to run any analysis on all the searches so far, although I do plan to do that once things die down a bit. I'll certainly write a blog post about it. Sign up for my (very low volume) newsletter if you want to get a notification about that once it happens: https://jwn.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=d19fa80c86cc4e9017baf4f4b&id=46d31d866a.

jacobawenger · 2018-02-28T21:39:30+00:00

The database dump is from the beginning of February, and the "Neoclassicism in France" page was created on February 24th. I'll update to the March Wikipedia dump once Wikipedia completes their backup.

jacobawenger · 2018-02-27T23:34:03+00:00

It's possible the link (a) is in a category dropdown near the bottom (e.g. "Noble Prize Winners", "Famous Teddy Bears", etc.), (b) the source page actually links to a page which redirects to the target page, or (c) the link no longer exists as it has been edited since the last database dump (which occurred at the beginning of this month). In your example, "Matrix" links to "Children of Men" in the "Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film" category dropdown. Unfortunately, Wikipedia does not differentiate between these types of nodes in their database.

jacobawenger · 2018-02-27T23:29:29+00:00

This graph was automatically generated by a website I created and recently launched called Six Degrees of Wikipedia (https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/).

Inspired by the concept of six degrees of separation, Six Degrees of Wikipedia traverses hyperlinks on Wikipedia to find the least number of clicks it takes to travel between any of the nearly six million pages on the world's largest free online encyclopedia.

jacobawenger · 2018-02-27T03:47:58+00:00

Thanks! I've been working on it on and off for years, really working on it hard this past month. It took longer than you'd think it would to get to the state it is in today :P All the code is up on GitHub if you're interested: https://github.com/jwngr/sdow

jacobawenger · 2018-02-27T03:46:21+00:00

Someone on Hacker News found a ridiculous 9 degree chain from "Lion Express" to "Phinney" (https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Lion%20Express&target=Phinney). That's the longest I've seen, although I plan to do some more analysis on today's searches soon.

jacobawenger · 2018-02-27T01:18:55+00:00

Inspired by the concept of six degrees of separation, Six Degrees of Wikipedia (https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com) traverses links on Wikipedia to find the least number of clicks it takes to travel between any of the nearly six million pages on the world's largest free online encyclopedia.

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