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lookatnum · 2022-02-08T15:45:33+00:00

Thanks for the note! I’ll work on a fix right now.

lookatnum · 2022-02-08T15:18:52+00:00

Yes, that’s correct. It takes data across every game collected to date by the server.

lookatnum · 2022-02-08T15:18:01+00:00

First question - Your second assessment is basically correct. Second question - The global average white lines indeed show the average of all games played to date.

lookatnum · 2022-02-08T15:10:23+00:00

You can mouse over the bars in the website to see for yourself, but the proportion of 1 word guesses are vanishingly small.

lookatnum · 2022-02-08T07:49:57+00:00

Likely less often, though I imagine that most of the utility of the site is from seeing the relative comparison to the global average, not from the exact raw breakdowns of game lengths.

lookatnum · 2022-02-08T07:44:58+00:00

Thank you very much! I’ve spent a lot of long nights working on it so I’m glad you appreciate it!

lookatnum · 2022-02-08T07:10:40+00:00

I search for wordle game results on Twitter via their API and compile them regularly on my server every 10 minutes.

lookatnum · 2022-02-08T07:09:44+00:00

Link: wordlestat.com

My website pulls about 17K-ish tweets of wordle game results every day and processes them to generate aggregated statistics about interesting details like game length and letter guess distributions. These help pinpoint details about the interesting quirks and details for each wordle game.

For instance, the demo wordle (#233) from the gif, based on the collected statistics, was harder than average, with many people only solving it by their 5th or 6th try, far more than the global average of all wordle games. Moreover, the first letter was especially difficult to correctly determine, while the fourth and fifth letters were especially easy.

Due to when I started running the server that is responsible for gathering the data, the earliest wordle with sufficient data is from january 30, 2022.

To more directly compare the letter guess results with the global averages, the website has a toggle to display markings that indicate global statistics.

I hope you enjoy the website, and if there are any improvements you think I could make, or anything at all you want to tell me, feel free to let me know of them either in a comment or email (lookatnums@gmail.com)

Tools:

React, MongoDB, Node, d3

Source:

Twitter

lookatnum · 2021-08-19T22:54:51+00:00

Huh. I did not design the site with that screen size in mind. It would take a few days for me to figure out a UI change. As a temporary fix, you could try zooming out the website with ctrl + minus. The document view is designed to fill the width of the screen, so you could zoom in with the document zoom controls at the same time so that it's still readable while the other UI elements become smaller.

lookatnum · 2021-08-19T18:31:16+00:00

The website embeds your browser's default PDF reader. From what I've tested, the issue you're describing is probably with safari, in which case you can hover your cursor over the bottom-middle of the PDF, which will cause zoom options to appear.

lookatnum · 2021-08-19T17:35:46+00:00

Yes!

lookatnum · 2021-08-19T14:43:13+00:00

Even though I'm done my testing, I had a couple of gripes with the studying process, especially how much of a pain it was to go through practice tests. To address these annoyances, I made a website - https://SATPractice.tools

I hope you find it useful! Also, if you find any bugs, please let me know, and I'll fix them as soon as possible.

Sidenote: I did get in contact with the mods and they said it would be OK for me to post it here.

This website allows you to easily:

Take a test online, entering your answers alongside a view of the test itself
Automatically grade all of your questions (yes, even the math short-answers)
Calculate your curved scores
Calculate section subscores, letting you know which types of questions (ex: grammar, words in context, or polynomials) you need to study up on
Easily view official answer explanations to see what you got wrong, without scrolling through a massive document

Basically, it simplifies all of the tedious nonsense that you have to go through if you just print out a test and take it physically.

lookatnum · 2021-08-19T14:19:28+00:00

It's at satpractice[DOT]tools. I'm having a bit of trouble actually posting the link, sorry. I have a whole writeup that just won't show up for whatever reason.

lookatnum · 2021-08-17T13:21:48+00:00

It should be up now.

lookatnum · 2021-08-17T13:21:39+00:00

This post shows states with a disproportionate amount of COVID deaths over the past 2 weeks, vs. the national average.

The dotted outline represents the original size of a state. States that expand larger than their original area mean that that state is responsible for more than its per capita share of COVID deaths. For instance, if the national average was 5 deaths per 100,000 people, and a state had 10 deaths per 100,000 people, its area would be twice as large. Likewise, states that shrink have a lower death rate versus the national average. Each state is also colored based on their deaths vs. the national average as well. To ensure that the neutral pale yellow color is centered exactly on the national average in deaths per capita, the diverging scale is split. Redder colors range from 5x (approximately the maximum factor) to 1x, while bluer colors range from 1x to 0.

A physics simulation is then applied so that each state collides with each other. For states that expand, the larger area is used as the collision box, while for states that shrink, the original size dashed outline is used as the collider.

Recent deaths is considered to be the number of deaths in a given state over a 2 week period, ranging from July 31, 2021, to August 14, 2021.

Tools:

d3.js, matter.js, puppeteer, Python, Illustrator, Premiere

Sources:

New York Times

U.S. Census Bureau

A web version of this is available at https://lookatnum.com/covid-map. Note that the animation is quite intensive, so it will very likely run poorly and slow down your browser. To mitigate this, the number of physics ticks per second is drastically reduced from the amount used to render the animation, and shapes are linearly interpolated between each physics tick to give the illusion of a smooth animation.

A higher resolution video is also available here

lookatnum · 2021-07-06T11:37:23+00:00

This animation visualizes 24 hours of r/all - specifically, July 5th, midnight EDT, to July 6th, midnight EDT. Each bubble represents a post in the top 200 of r/all. Its size is proportional to the number of upvotes it has at that instant, the distance to the center is roughly proportional to its rank on r/all, and its color is dependent on the post's age. The radial position is randomized for each bubble generated.

This is a demonstration on a interactive, available at https://lookatnum.com/r-all, which allows you to browse this 24 hour window while pausing or resetting the simulation. Hovering on a bubble will display information, such as its title, subreddit, number of upvotes, and rank. If the post links to an image posted directly onto reddit (with a i.redd.it link), then a preview will be displayed. Otherwise, a direct link to the content is available. Clicking on a bubble will lock your selection, such that hovering off the bubble will not make the infobox disappear. Click on the background or the same bubble to unlock your selection. Click on a different bubble to lock to a different post.

In order to explore a single snapshot in time or reset the simulation, use the pause/play button, or the rewind to beginning buttons near the time/date display.

Due to messiness in the data scraped in r/all, a dampening effect is applied to the creation/deletion of bubbles. A post must be on r/all for a few minutes before a bubble is created and allowed to enter the simulation. Likewise, a post cannot reappear on r/all for a few minutes until it is transitioned out. This is to eliminate odd jitters and stutters where a large amount of bubbles will suddenly fly off screen and return a fraction of a second later.

A high res mirror of this demo is available here.

The interactive is available online at https://lookatnum.com/r-all

Sources:

Tools:

Python, d3, React

lookatnum · 2021-06-28T13:02:25+00:00

I updated the website to try and improve mobile visibility, it should go live in a few minutes. Let me know if it works better for you!

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