Too Long; Didn't Read
It’s officially winter, so what could be better than drinking hot chocolate while querying the new <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/12/google-bigquery-public-datasets-now-include-stack-overflow-q-a" target="_blank">Stack Overflow dataset in BigQuery</a>? It has every Stack Overflow question, answer, comment, and more — which means endless possibilities of data crunching. Inspired by <a href="https://medium.com/@hoffa" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="279fe54c149a" data-action-value="279fe54c149a" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Felipe Hoffa</a>’s <a href="https://medium.com/@hoffa/always-end-your-questions-with-a-stack-overflow-bigquery-and-other-stories-2470ebcda7f#.3b7kldtci" target="_blank">post</a> on how response time varies by tag, I wanted to look at the <a href="https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/bigquery-public-data:stackoverflow.comments?pli=1&tab=schema" target="_blank">comments table</a> (53 million rows!).