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Title text: This comic shows estimated average frequency. I wanted to include the pitch drop experiment, but it turns out the gif format has some issues with decade-long loops. |
Chatting with my friends in Aideron Robotics, the question came up: "Wouldn't it be cool to do that for EVE data?" Conveniently, I happened to have that data somewhat handy. Unfortunately, as I said in my previous post, I was lacking the time to work on it.
After putting out a call on #tweetfleet/#devfleet with "I have the data, if someone wants to make it happen", Lukas Rox of Pozniak.pl answered the call! With a little bit of JavaScript hacking, he put together two awesome pages:
After putting out a call on #tweetfleet/#devfleet with "I have the data, if someone wants to make it happen", Lukas Rox of Pozniak.pl answered the call! With a little bit of JavaScript hacking, he put together two awesome pages:
- Ship types destroyed
- Ship groups destroyed (made like XKCD's)
- Replay of B-R5RB (NEW!)
I already have a repository of destruction counts from zkb. Using 2013's data to build averages, I sent forward the frequencies to Lukas, who in turn used JavaScript to get the same effect. Unfortunately, this is averaged data, not live. I would very much like to update it to match zkb's map function (broken?), but I need to write a different tool to hook into their STOMP service. It's high on my TODO, but I don't have very much dev time handy right now. In the meantime, a 15-60min lagging service is possible using my zkb.py to scrape recent kills... but STOMP would be so much better.
To keep this short and sweet: this was a lot of fun to collaborate on. Where I had the data, Lukas had the know-how. And the turnaround time, being published 2 days after XKCD posted, was phenominal. We're still arguing behind the scenes about the time dilation factor (@ashterothi suggested a slider, which might solve everyone's issues). We are chatting about teaming up on more data projects in the future, and I look forward to putting our tools together!
UPDATE:
A few addendums.
@ashterothi originally suggested the "wouldn't it be cool if..." comment that compelled me to scrape the data and throw it out to #tweetfleet
Lukas also pushed an page that chronicles the big B-R5RB fight: http://pozniak.pl/evestats/br5rb/
