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How does it estimate the number of users?
by ent101 7y ago
How does it estimate the number of users?
- mcormier 7y agoOr jobs?
- milesvp 7y agoI don't know, but looking at ADA, 20 jobs seems very low. I was under the impression that ADA is still a required language for a lot of military hardware. My guess would be that he's scraping jobs sites for listings numbers, and I suspect something like ADA development is using different channels to find devs.
- tom_mellior 7y agoProlog has 402 claimed jobs: https://codelani.com/languages/prolog.html https://codelani.com/languages/prolog.html but looking at any Prolog implementation lists 0. I cannot imagine that there are this many (available?) Prolog jobs in the world, nor that no advertised job would specify the implementation the company uses. I think the numbers are generated using some sort of garbage in, garbage out system.
- codelani 7y agoYes, a year or two ago I grabbed job listings from sites like Indeed and LinkedIn and trained a very crude basket of models. No one ever seemed to use it so I hadn't touched it since then. Time to refresh that, thanks for the feedback! Interesting points about ADA and I'll try and bring in some of those back channels.
- codelani 7y agoSee answer above. A very crude model. Will ship a new one with an explanation shortly.
- sim_card_map 7y agoLooks like it uses github stars for that.
- codingdave 7y agoThat would exclude many users for languages that are in legacy systems, which are rarely tracked in github.
- ent101 7y agoIt could be alright for a rough/relative estimate...
- ska 7y agoPoorly, it seems.
- codelani 7y agoA very basic decision tree/random forest model. I haven't updated it since the first version I did about a year or two ago, because I didn't have users myself and no one provided any feedback. Thank you for the feedback! I've made a todo item to refresh/explain the model.