On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Maybe we can use internet users stats by country, something like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_usersto normalize our stats. > Regards, > > -Rob > -- ==== This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.
