StackOverflow Analytics

Editor's note: Michael shares Stackoverflow data in MotherDuck as part of this snippet as well as typical aggregate analytics on the data. There are additional sample data sets attached by default in MotherDuck as the 'sample_data' share.

Attach and select MotherDuck database
Data shared/available on MotherDuck

ATTACH 'md:_share/stackoverflow/6c318917-6888-425a-bea1-5860c29947e5' AS stackoverflow;
USE stackoverflow;
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Which 5 questions have the most comments, what is the post title and comment countSQL

SELECT Title, CommentCount
FROM posts
WHERE PostTypeId = 1
ORDER BY CommentCount DESC
LIMIT 5;
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User reputation and reputation rate per daySQL

SELECT name, reputation, 
       round(reputation/day(today()-createdAt)) as rate, 
       day(today()-createdAt) as days, 
       createdAt
FROM users WHERE reputation > 1000000 ORDER BY rate DESC;
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Reputation rate as bar chart with CTESQL

WITH top_users as (
  SELECT name, reputation, 
       round(reputation/day(today()-createdAt)) as rate, day(today()-createdAt) as days, 
       createdAt
       FROM users WHERE reputation > 1000000
)
SELECT name, reputation, rate, bar(rate,150,300,35) AS bar FROM top_users;
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Post statistics per yearSQL

SELECT  year(CreationDate) AS year, count(*), 
        round(avg(ViewCount)), max(AnswerCount)
FROM posts 
GROUP BY year 
ORDER BY year DESC LIMIT 10;
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Posting Frequency with bar chart on Weekdays for "sql" tagSQL

SELECT count(*) as freq, dayname(CreationDate) AS day, 
       bar(freq, 0, 150000,20) AS plot
FROM posts WHERE posttypeid = 1 
AND tags LIKE '%<sql>%'
GROUP BY all 
ORDER BY freq DESC;
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Posting Frequency with bar chart on Weekdays for "rust" tagSQL

SELECT count(*) as freq, dayname(CreationDate) AS day, 
       bar(freq, 0, 10000,20) AS plot
FROM posts WHERE posttypeid = 1 
AND tags LIKE '%<rust>%'
GROUP BY all 
ORDER BY freq DESC;
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Michael Hunger

Edited 02/23/24