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On 10 May 2010 19:55, Hernan Badenes <[email protected]> wrote: > (Replying to an old thread here...) > > Last night I was curious about my country's feed, as well -- I wanted > to find people I might now that could be competing. Browsing across > the 10,500 contestants was NOT an option :) So I went ahead and with a > bash command line (and 30 other python lines) I grabbed the scoreboard > in JSON just the contest UI does, and did a little parsing and > filtering. So if you are still curious, you can do the same thing or > use that code as a base for your own stuff. > The original code (this was several hours ago.... though I happened to > fail to reply to this forum!) is in my blog post: > > http://daily-hacking.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-codejam-participants-feeds.html > > > Also, I used a slightly evolved version of that python script to print > some basic country stats: number of participants and number of people > passing the Quals. This is unofficial data, I think, as the official > emails from google have not been sent out; and they are probably still > working on removing cheaters and other stuff. But this rough numbers > are neatly visualized here: > Word map: > > http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/google-codejam-2010-qualification- > Boxes: > > http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/gcj10-contestants-vs-qualifiers > The second chart works as follow: The color represents the percentage > of (qualifying / contestants) in that country. The darker, the worse > the percentage. So you can see China, Ukraine, Poland and Taiwan > really highlighting, with less than 7% of participants being > disqualified this round. (If you wonder that the orange color is, > that's a 100% "accuracy", but only happened in a few countries with a > small number of contestants). > > I will try to maintain or update these charts in later rounds. > > > As for DoSing, I hope I am not abusing of the APIs. In fact, since I > grabbed the stats I happily played with them for hours -- instead of > browsing back and forward the scoreboard, so should have saved the > world a fewn etwork packets. > > Enjoy! > Hernan. > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Igor Naverniouk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We are not planning to implement anything special, but we still have > > the AJAX requests that the scoreboard page uses to grab 20 rows at a > > time. You can use those if you like (within reason, of course, or your > > IP address might get blocked by Google's anti-DoS system). > > > > igor > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > -- Abizer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
