Many of the questions on Stack Overflow have a large number of answers. The site is not optimized to show the latest answers; the answers are ranked by being the most accepted answer then randomly. This is done to give all answers a chance at being shown near the top which should, in theory, encourage people to vote for the best answer instead of just the first answer shown.
For this visualization, I would like to show how a question has been answered over time. Are more recent answers likely to get a higher score? Is the first answer always the best?
Let's start by pulling down the data for an individual question which has a large number of answers. To do this, we'll make use of the questions API. All of the API endpoints ...
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