Thanks for all your replies. Yes, the number of downloads might be misleading, yet it would be interesting to be able to compare downloads to github stars and github clones.
M On 08/14/2014 10:07 AM, John Myles White wrote: > This was a really nice read, even you can tell the author’s spent time > with social scientists based on their assertion that a correlation of > 0.3 is low. > > — John > > On Aug 13, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Samuel Jenkins <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Since this is on the topic of package popularity, this blog post on >> the metrics of gem (package) popularity in Ruby by Loren Segal may be >> of interest (arguably a roughly similar problem): >> http://gnuu.org/2011/10/19/gem-downloads-and-usage/ >> >> On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:03:31 PM UTC+10, Michael Smith wrote: >> >> Is there some sort of way to rank the popularity of Julia packages? >> Haven't found anything like that (and apologies if I have missed >> anything). >> >> The reason I'm asking is that, although I am aware that relying >> purely >> on rankings has several disadvantages, I still do believe that >> there are >> some strong advantages in having a rough idea about what the really >> important (or widely-used) packages are. >> >> This is particularly important considering the fact that the >> number of >> Julia packages is increasing, and for newbies it will be difficult to >> find their way around. >> >> Thanks, >> >> M >
