Joe Marshall wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > >>Computer Language Popularity Trend >> >>This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as >>indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a >>comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of >>popularity trends. > > > Suggestions: > Provide a log-scale plot. You can clearly see that there are > exponential trends in the data, these will turn into lines in > log-scale. You can also see that the plots get more widely distributed > as the number of posts increase. This too will be minimized in > log-scale. > > Make the horizontal scale for the `scripting' languages the same as > the others. I know there isn't data out on the left of the graph, but > it surprised me to see points out there until I noticed the scale > change. > > For the Google trends, try looking for `java programming' or `written > in python' to avoid picking up the island and the popular comedy troupe. > I'd also encourage normalisation so the highest value on all scales is the same height. The absolute numbers are neither as interesting nor as significant as the trends.
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