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A quick Python script/hack to plot data

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I've found matplotlib to generate really nice graphs with Python.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

I've used it to graph things like IRC usage per nick before.

I'm not going to offer yet another "You should've used..." comment. Instead, I offer a thanks. A nice little script, I used it to adapt a little IP address map (ala http://xkcd.com/195/ but with dots) for a firewall attack log.

I'll update this comment with a GitHub link when it's not embarrassingly bad and hacky.

Another option is Google's Chart API and pygooglechhart.

http://asktherelic.com/2010/09/05/large-graphs-with-google-c...

Or you could just use Webnumbr

http://webnumbr.com/

Or Pycha:

http://bitbucket.org/lgs/pycha/wiki/Home

That's pretty cool, provided you use it from the start, and only want to track a single number.

But it's cool - thanks. I'll probably be able to use that for something later.

Problem is, I don't want to log in to it with any of the options. I don't want to hand over my credentials. Shame I can't create my own login specifically for that page.

I guess I could create, say, a fake twitter account and use that, but it seems odd.

Hmm. Something to think about.

You don't have to log in, going to your page and click on the karma-number should be enough:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RiderOfGiraffes

Edit: Ah, you meant log in as in making an account for the website. If you're only going to look for karma, then there's no need to make an account from what I see.

I've done that, and I've created it.

http://webnumbr.com/hacker-news-karma-for-riderofgiraffes

It said, however, that if I want to edit the details then I'd need to login. Or so it would appear.

But I find it very confusing. It's not clear what, if anything, is private, or what, if anything, can be edited. There's lots I want to know, but can neither figure out nor figure out how to find out.

It also constantly and consistently hangs my machine with my browser repeatedly warning me that a script is taking too long, and do I want to abort it, or let it continue. And when I say continually, at last attempt I got 23 warnings, and it took 2 minutes to load a page.

Somewhat frustrating. Brilliant idea, no doubt brilliantly executed, but causing me, personally, huge frustration in its usage.

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