Categorized best nodes

A few months ago, following a lead by BrowserUk and using source code (slightly rearranged) by blokhead, I started collecting Selected Best Nodes, until I had 2000 of them.

Once I was reasonably confident that I had the first 2000 best nodes of all times, I started playing with the resulting database, and eventually I made a simple search engine, from where I can get some statistics by section or author, and lists of nodes, customized by section and rep.

A few examples:

Stats by section, sorted by number of nodes: (but you can get stats by author, or sorted in different ways)

section	nodes	sum_rep	avg_rep	min_rep	max_rep
Meditations	808	89319	110.54	82	452
Seekers of Perl Wisdom	579	56855	98.20	82	389
Perl Monks Discussion	249	28373	113.95	82	297
Cool Uses For Perl	113	13331	117.97	82	325
Obfuscated Code	111	14819	133.50	82	541
Tutorials	71	9324	131.32	83	409
Perl Poetry	44	4882	110.95	83	256
Craft	17	1908	112.24	85	227
Code Catacombs	5	464	92.80	85	101
Polls	3	326	108.67	98	129
Snippets Section	3	342	114	83	150
Reviews	2	192	96	96	96
Perl News	1	92	92	92	92

List of Meditations and Cool Uses for Perl nodes with rep of 200 or more: (but you can list by any other section or rep value)

n.	title	author	rep	section
1	Professional Employees and Works for Hire	tilly	452	Med
2	A little fun with merlyn	jcwren	325	CUFP
3	Shift, Pop, Unshift and Push with Impunity!	lhoward	286	Med
4	Re: Professional Employees and Works for Hire	dws	285	Med
5	Damian Conway's ten rules for when to use OO	petdance	276	Med
6	Why I like functional programming	tilly	271	Med
7	Second rate programmers and my confession	Ovid	265	Med
8	web site design, or lack thereof	merlyn	254	Med
9	Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict	Ovid	239	Med
10	How You (Yes You!) Can Get Involved	chromatic	237	Med
11	My coding guidelines	Abigail-II	234	Med
12	Genetic Programming or breeding Perls	gumpu	232	CUFP
13	'our' is not 'my'	Ovid	232	Med
14	SPAM eater	boo_radley	226	CUFP
15	The path to mastery	tilly	223	Med
16	Oh my God! Tie killed Perl!	Petruchio	217	Med
17	Stats Whoring - The VXML Way	jcwren	213	Med
18	Do my homework for me!	dws	213	Med
19	Advanced Sorting - GRT - Guttman Rosler Transform	demerphq	210	Med
20	Yoda Speak Translator	grep	209	CUFP
21	Re: Professional Employees and Works for Hire	Trimbach	200	Med

More than my description, I believe that using it directly would be easier to understand. So have a look at http://gmax.oltrelinux.com/cgi-bin/cbnodes.cgi, where you can also download the current database in SQLite format.

I will appreciate comments and tips for enhancements. Actually, if the gods decide to implement something like this in the Monastery, I would be very happy.

Thanks to demerphq, BrowserUk, dragonchild, and blokhead for providing useful feedback and tips.

update
Modified links in example table. Since it was cut-and-paste code from an external page, its links could log out the readers. Fixed now. Thanks to talexb.

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Comment on Categorized best nodes

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Re: Categorized best nodes by talexb (Chancellor) on Apr 12, 2004 at 18:30 UTC
Statistical Analysis seems to be a common sport among Perl Monks -- suits me, as the son and grandson of an actuary. One minor detracting point -- can you change the links to the articles from absolute links to the `[id://123456]` format? As soon as I checked out one of the links, the formatting went wonky -- I was logged out. Thanks! Alex / talexb / Toronto Life is short: get busy!	[reply] [d/l]


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