Very Excellent work
I'm also satisfied by the results in the line http://www.go-hero.net/jam/10/
and didn't try to make a code that make the statistics.
Anyway thanks for the code and your work ;)


On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Abizern <[email protected]> wrote:

> http://www.go-hero.net/jam/10/
>
>
> 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
>> >
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