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jazzychad
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 		[NEATO] Card Stats site
Well, this isn't what I've been waiting to post for the last week... instead it's a teaser while the other project is *almost* ready (for the very intrepid among you, you could probably find it anyway... ::plays mysterious music:: ) I'm posting it tomorrow ready or not!

So, while you wait, play with this little toy:
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http://www.jazzychad.com/pxc/cards/


An interesting suggestion by doublecross and ne0x gave me the idea.. so I combined them and out popped this!

Enjoy!
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 		Re: [NEATO] Card Stats site
jazzychad wrote:
Well, this isn't what I've been waiting to post for the last week... instead it's a teaser while the other project is *almost* ready (for the very intrepid among you, you could probably find it anyway... ::plays mysterious music:: ) I'm posting it tomorrow ready or not!


Considering you were asking for wave release dates, will it show the elapsed time between the release and the first solve?
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jazzychad
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 		Interesting idea... but those dates were for the other project...

p.s. whoooo! I'm a Veteran now!
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 		Very nice.
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 		Hee, isn't the "Colour" column a bit redundant?

This is sweet =)
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Mindez wrote:
Hee, isn't the "Colour" column a bit redundant?

This is sweet =)


Well, if it were populated with data, I'd say keep it for people with color blindness and/or assistance browsers.

Jazzychad, perhaps a link on the number or name to the Card Catalog (with BriEnigma's permission of course)? Which wave the card is from would be nice as well.

The Too Easy list (by wave, excluding P01)
009 Ishihara
017 Easy As ...
019 Magic Numbers
045 Snake Eyes

010 Spot Anything
011 Revelation
016 XXX
044 You Are Here
055 Speed Sight
081 What Car?

033 Turnabout
131 Detail

032 Cow Cow Cow Cow Cow


The Too Hard list (by wave)
107 Blockword
152 Barcode Recipe
172 Freefall
219 Master of Secrets
238 Riemann
240 Elucidate
243 Shuffled
251 Thirteenth Labour

173 14-15
180 ARG!
183 Drinking Gourd
242 Ciphers of History
248 Differently Lethal

066 Lost in Mockba
202 Mother Tongue

189 Multithreaded
235 Circuitous
256 Billion To One


Just by count of cards that fall out of the "Just Right" category, apparently wave 3 and wave 4 are more on target than the waves 1 and 2. Given that wave 4's only easy card is a Red and its hard cards are a purple and a pair of silvers, I think I can declare wave 4 to be the best designed wave. Now, to be fair, wave 4 has the least feedback so it might get skewed later. Wave 3 comes pretty darn close though. Kind of interesting to see how Mind Candy has gotten better at placing the cards difficulty.

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jazzychad
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e_nygma wrote:
Which wave the card is from would be nice as well.


Ah, a good idea indeed. It's only missing from my data because the wave of each card is not listed on the cards' page itself. My little script is just scraping the captured data off each card page. I could incorperate that information into my database though... is there a definitive list of "These cards are in Wave 1, etc..."? I'm a bit too lazy to flip through all my cards and write it down.... if only I could write a script to do that.... ::ponders::
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jazzychad wrote:
e_nygma wrote:
Which wave the card is from would be nice as well.


Ah, a good idea indeed. It's only missing from my data because the wave of each card is not listed on the cards' page itself. My little script is just scraping the captured data off each card page. I could incorperate that information into my database though... is there a definitive list of "These cards are in Wave 1, etc..."? I'm a bit too lazy to flip through all my cards and write it down.... if only I could write a script to do that.... ::ponders::


*scratches his head* Well, it should be a part of the card pages because when you go to your "Solved Cards" page under your login and mouse over a card (or a hole) it tells you the name, number and wave for that card. So the data must be somewhere on perplexcity.com. But apparently not. I guess the wave listing is part of PXC's backend database and they enter that into the "alt" attribute of the image tags.

However, if you want a quick & dirty list of the cards and waves, you could always view source on said "Solved Cards" page and yank out the data manually (by manually, I mean gin up a quick script to take the data out of the source page and feed it into your database).

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jazzychad
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 		Yeah, I had just thought of that too... shouldn't be too hard... lemme see what i can whip up real quick..

<edit> and approximately 25 seconds later I have what i need Very Happy </edit>
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jazzychad
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 		Ok... Waves have been added to the table..

my next improvement is to be able to sort by multiple columns.. but that will take a while.
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my next improvement is to be able to sort by multiple columns.. but that will take a while


Well, some forms of dynamic sorting (javascipt) should leave the rows in the previous order when a duplicate value is found. So you could sort by difficulty, then wave; all the wave one cards would be together and sorted by difficulty.

Hmmm... I should be able to do it with javascript; it wouldn't require a reload every time that way. I'll try to have a look on my lunch break.

::edit::

Ok, well I guess I need to do some more reading on sort algorithms, 'cause this one is taking way too long to be practical. I'm OK with your server doing all the work jc. Wink

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