Well, my knowledge is spotty and a little inconsistent at best. It's been many years since I did any kind of programming at a significant sitting. The piles of reference material that I had around my virtual seat were not to be trifled with.
So – if you count the amount of time that I put in on the problem yesterday, which led to me refining that work into a more precise and better presented set of graphs regarding who is at the top of the blockchain, plus the work today in getting plotly connected up without a problem and starting to work on the graphviz integration with my development environment…
Maybe 12 hours, total? Most of them today, most of them flailing around at graphviz to get it to output content that looked compelling and actually was explorable. Not to mention working out a few more things about how to control database queries to SteamData because I didn't want to keep banging on them too heavily.
data posts take ages, love what you have done here. Keep it up
The funny thing is that at this point, the part that takes the most time is actually processing the data to build the graphs and charts. Figuring out how to get the data, pulling the data, getting the data into usable chunks – that's at most an hour. Doing the actual writing and analysis? A couple of hours at worst, probably because I'm not very good at it.
Waiting for massive amounts of data to get chunked into various presentation formats? Even with the amount of CPU I have to throw at the problem – well, there's always plenty of time when tinkering with these things to get a snack. Or a few rounds of Atlas Reactor.
So now I just have to figure out more things to draw lines around.