On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Roberto Galoppini <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Thanks, that looks useful. I started entering the data into a spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av4Lhq3W5zKodGZtNU1oRGFjWi1kYXkzVEtjOWY1ZlE As you see, Italy is at the top, if you look at downloads per 1000 internet users, with 91. So nearly one in ten in Italy have downloaded AOO! -Rob > > >> 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. >
