This topic/data set harkens back to a discussion at least two years old around the SFX on the genealogy of computer languages. Well, sorta.
*DRMacIver <http://drmaciver.com/> writes: * *"So I have this site, http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com* *It's about ranking programming languages according to how well various statements apply to them. I've got a lot of interesting data, and I'm doing nightly data dumps of it: http://data.hammerprinciple.com/the-right-tool.tar.bz2* *I'm not an infovis person (I've done a bit, but I suck at it), so I've mostly been focusing on numeric and text measures: Descriptions, similar languages and statements, etc, but I'd love it if someone who was interested would play with some interesting visualisations of it.* *So, anyone up for it?"* -tj -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] "Be Your Own Publisher" http://indiepubwest.com ==========================================
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