I was thinking of putting together a world map showing the use of OpenOffice, the kind with each country shaded or color coded to show the density of use.
I can easily get a data set showing the total number of downloads of OpenOffice per country. But the raw numbers don't really tell the story. It would show, probably, that the USA has the most downloads. But that is probably also because of its large population. So maybe we then show downloads per capita, or downloads per 100,000 population. But that then becomes a proxy for economic development, since there are highly populated countries with fewer computers per capital, and low population countries with more computers, etc. I don't think that is what we want to show. So, I'm wondering, has anyone seen data for something like PCs per capita, or home computers, or internet users, or some other proxy for what our potential usership would be per country? Regards, -Rob
