Stardust Top 100
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:34 pm
Impressed by how hard some of those in the top 100 manage to work? And, if a member of the club, ever wonder how you might be doing in comparison? Checking and comparing whole lists manually is tough going, hence the program Stardust Top 100 which will do it for you. It's purely for fun of course, since our individual scoring rates are of no relevance to the project in general.
It will automatically access the current Phase 2 Top 100 list, and after a simple loading process will immediately show a graph of each duster's daily average scoring rate since the baseline initially incorporated on 6th February 2008. Basic score plots and the gaps between individual dusters may also be displayed; pointing to a column with the mouse cursor will show each duster's name, position, score and further relevant details.
A static example of the daily-average graph for the last 10 days (since starting the baseline) is shown below:
A couple of the other (among eight) types of graph available can be seen here.
To use the program just click Stardust Top 100 and follow the simple on-screen instructions.*
I hope to update the baseline data at frequent enough intervals to accommodate new entrants (shown in green, as in the above examples), and maybe post here any interesting trends; e.g. besides the usual top-end suspects, josette Tauber seems to have been making quite an effort lately (as of 16 Feb) - check it out!
John
* Essentially just Select, Copy & Paste (browser security restrictions prevent this from also being automated, since the Stardust page comes from a different domain than the program). Tested in IE7, Netscape 7.2 and Firefox 2.0 only.
PS. I wish I had KimiRaikkonen's artistry and web skills in order to make it look more professional!
It will automatically access the current Phase 2 Top 100 list, and after a simple loading process will immediately show a graph of each duster's daily average scoring rate since the baseline initially incorporated on 6th February 2008. Basic score plots and the gaps between individual dusters may also be displayed; pointing to a column with the mouse cursor will show each duster's name, position, score and further relevant details.
A static example of the daily-average graph for the last 10 days (since starting the baseline) is shown below:
A couple of the other (among eight) types of graph available can be seen here.
To use the program just click Stardust Top 100 and follow the simple on-screen instructions.*
I hope to update the baseline data at frequent enough intervals to accommodate new entrants (shown in green, as in the above examples), and maybe post here any interesting trends; e.g. besides the usual top-end suspects, josette Tauber seems to have been making quite an effort lately (as of 16 Feb) - check it out!
John
* Essentially just Select, Copy & Paste (browser security restrictions prevent this from also being automated, since the Stardust page comes from a different domain than the program). Tested in IE7, Netscape 7.2 and Firefox 2.0 only.
PS. I wish I had KimiRaikkonen's artistry and web skills in order to make it look more professional!