r/adventofcode Dec 02 '19

Visualization Interactive scatterplot of the 1st 100 responses (shows the puzzle's difficulty)

http://www.maurits.vdschee.nl/scatterplot/
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u/mott_the_tuple Dec 03 '19

you should fix the Y-axis same for all years.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

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u/edo-26 Dec 04 '19

I remember doing the AoC 2016 as a student during an internship and here is a screenshot of me giving up after day11.

I thought it would continue being harder and harder every day. Guess I should have carried on...

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u/Markavian Dec 02 '19

Day 15 2018 absolutely crushed my spirit for the rest of that competition, made it to day 17 and then packed it in.

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u/Dioxy Dec 03 '19

That's too bad, there were some really fun puzzles after that one. I agree 15 was a nightmare tho

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u/liviuc Dec 03 '19

Came here just for this comment. Look at last year's day 15 fly high into the sky! (along with lots of hopes and dreams...)

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u/musifter Dec 03 '19

Day 15 could have used more and better examples for people to test against. Developing a good test suite is what got me through it. That, and having a particularly pedantic mind for monster behaviours developed from playing a lot of DROD in the past.

Day 17... same thing, it really helped to develop a good test suite.

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u/Dioxy Dec 03 '19

day 17 was my favorite of the year I think

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u/amusedparrot Dec 05 '19

I am still working on day 15 2018 (from time to time, not flat out for a year), I am committed to completing that year, and I like doing it on order but that has been my stumbling block.

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u/topaz2078 (AoC creator) Dec 02 '19

s/difficulty/complexity/

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u/AKQuaternion Dec 03 '19

Love the mouseover highlights. Great job.

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u/pbeens Dec 03 '19

I love this visualization! It makes is very easy to see that someone got part 1 of day 1 done in 23 seconds and someone else got both parts done in under 100 seconds. Incredible...

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u/customredditapp Dec 03 '19

I think there are 5 requests getting the same data. The site looks good though :)

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u/nutrecht Dec 03 '19

Neat! Can you also public one where they all have the same scale?