Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles

[nullhole]

I'm working with some data that has a large number of date formats within a single document - day seconds, week seconds, ISO8601, ticks, some with hardcoded offsets and others with different datums ... it would be quite funny I think to throw in a new column in the Hebrew calendar, just to join the party, so to speak.

[js2]

The Hebrew calendar is a marvel of historical engineering and complexity. Both solar and lunar with exceptions to accommodate Shabbat and other holidays, and be consistent with the Torah.

https://stevemorse.org/hebrewcalendar/hebrewcalendar.htm

[adityaathalye]

dwimmer's animated text art elevates everything about Hanukkah of Data! I wrote about how it works, here: https://evalapply.org/posts/animate-text-art-javascript/

[saulpw]

You did a great job on the text animation code, Adi! I've found myself falling into a trance watching the flickering candles.

[bigkahuna1986]

I know it's a week old, but I just finished and had a lot of fun! Thank you! I'm going to attempt the speed run after my toddler goes to sleep.

[akprasad]

The ASCII candle is really charming, especially when lit. Looking forward to exploring this further. Great work!

[paddy_m]

Thanks for putting this together, it's very creative.

Do you mind if I post videos of solving this to my youtube channel (that has absolutely no viewers)

[saulpw]

For sure! Just be sure to include a spoiler warning :)

[chronos00]

Hey, Whats your Youtube channel name? I am interested in watching the videos of your Solutions for these Data Puzzles.

[lofatdairy]

This was pretty fun! Sometimes the stories were a bit harder to parse than others, but honestly, that's pretty reflective of what it's like being a technical person communicating with non-technical people.

Hope to see this again next year!

[alxjsn]

I love the story! Excited for the next challenge!

[schoen]

Fun "crossover" observation (ROT13; spoiler for first night)

Gur fheanzr bs gur crefba jub vf gur nafjre gb #1 yvgrenyyl zrnaf 'sve gerr' (nf ersreraprq va n snzbhf Puevfgznf fbat).

[shlosky]

if anyone is stuck, here are the solutions:

https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/js/5784/solutions.js

[hadjian]

Congrats Saul! Hope it’s ok to solve this during Christmas, because of vacation ;-)

[saulpw]

Thanks! It'll stay up past the end of Hanukkah.

[jerpint]

Solved it all last year, looking forward to finishing this year’a puzzles!

[saulpw]

Well, the puzzles are the same, only the clues and dataset are different. But you might want to do them again anyway, to polish up your scripts--on the last day of Hannukah, we'll be posting a more challenging dataset for you to try to speedrun.

And keep on the lookout for more data puzzles from us in the near future!

[chirau]

Pretty cool. Got the first two. Now I have to wait for the next one...

[harshreality]

The phone number input requires dashes, which are entirely optional in general for communicating telephone numbers (dashes and parens only serve as decoration for readability these days).

[littlekey]

Thanks for this, will give it a try :)

[dkce9r854h32]

why can i only do the first 2 puzzles? it says i have to wait 17hrs. is it like a christmas countdown?

[NoraCodes]

chanukah is 8 days. presumably one puzzle will be released each day.

[MandieD]

Yay, it’s back!

[fud101]

im keen but not sure how to get started

[anjakefala]

Click on the candles to see the puzzle! Start with the 0th candle in the centre. =)