Irish Discussion Trends

Inspired by an analysis of computer science research trends, I wrote a simple application using Adobe Flex and Apache Lucene to analyze trends on the Irish discussion website boards.ie from 1998 to mid-2008. For example, computing only term frequencies within posts, one can observe the rise and fall of Ireland's mobile phone networks:





Please note that the 2008 dataset is incomplete, and so the results trail off for this year.