Datasets:
Missing months
#9
by jchook - opened
These months are missing data:
2006-11
2007-01
Is there a reason why?
Early Hacker News data is incomplete because archival datasets were reconstructed from partial sources such as scrapes, API backfills, and user dumps. During late 2006 and early 2007, there were gaps due to missing logs and inconsistent crawling, so months like 2006-11 and 2007-01 were never fully captured. I submitted a fix by adding zero-row Parquet files for those months.
Thanks for the response and the fix! I see what you mean now. For example, if I try to enumerate the early posts from the firebase API, the data is missing:
2006-10-22: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/61.json
2006-12-14: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/62.json
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