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Logix42
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#1 - 2013-03-12 02:38:07 UTC
I was reading an Eve blog recently and it got me thinking of using forum history as kind of intel tool on a character. If you go into a player's profile on Eve Gate you can see all their latest forum posts. From there you can get a rough idea of how they conduct themselves, what they've been up to recently, etc. But that's a lot of work if you want to do it for a bunch of people...

So that brings me to the idea of a forum analyzer type tool. Something that would look through the forums for posts by a certain player and then analyze the posts for different statistical data like which forum section they post in the most, number of posts over time, most talked about subject using something like a word heatmap. Also at a more granular level, a text analysis might yield average length of post, number of swear words, misspelling, sentence structure, etc. I'm sure there's lots of interesting statistics that can be made from text.

I don't know if this idea is possible or if it is how to go about doing it. I'm a software design student but have no idea where one would start with a project like this, or the methods it would entail. If someone wants to take this idea and go with it, please feel free. Or if someone has some good reading to point me to I might look into it myself. Would be a cool project to try and mess around with.

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Helgur
The State
#2 - 2013-03-12 08:01:15 UTC
You would have to make a program which retrieves webpages and handles sessions like any other webbrowser, except instead of rendering the webpages you parse the HTML and sort out the forum posts.

It will generate a lot of traffic on the forum to build the initial index, especially if you take into the account that the traffic will multiply when several people use the program. But technically it is doable and very easy to implement. Ideally you would have a central search engine indexing everything into a database, and then let the clients query that search engine instead of CCP's web servers for optimal performance
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#3 - 2013-03-12 08:44:17 UTC
Chribba's already done a bunch of this.

Maybe, if you ask nicely, he might give you a leg up. Maybe.

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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
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#4 - 2013-03-12 09:21:14 UTC
You mean like... http://eve-search.com/stats/Logix42 ?

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Logix42
Taxation Damnation
#5 - 2013-03-12 17:04:11 UTC
Chribba wrote:
You mean like... http://eve-search.com/stats/Logix42 ?


Very cool! Didn't realize that was a feature for eve-search

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