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Global Popularity of Programming Languages
- shard 18y agoIf only there was a way to normalize the data over programming population. Seeing that Python is most popular in CUBA makes me doubt how useful these distribution charts are.
- felideon 18y agoAgreed. Same thing with Russia being on the top three of most charts. Also, from the comments: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=haskell%20language&geo=&date=&clp=&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=haskell%20...
- d0mine 18y agoIndeed. Russians speaks the Russian language most of the time. It easily explains the search density results for Russia and Belarus.
- lethain 18y agoPersonally, I wish we could de-normalize the data, and compare countries in raw quantity of queries. Its not entirely clear how the data is being normalized at the moment, but its certainly imperfect. As far as I can tell, the way it is being normalized is relatively popularity for the search term within search terms in that category. I.E. that 'Python' was the most popular (relative to other programming search terms) in Cuba. This means that it is, in a way, trying to normalize over programming population (if we accept the somewhat plausible premise that only programmers are searching for programming topics), but the results still aren't great. It would be nice if Google made some raw data available, but I'm not holding my breath. :/
- silentbicycle 18y agoI'm not sure which surprised me more -- that OCaml is more popular in the Russian Federation than in France, or that Haskell is most popular in Jamaica, by a landslide. By his method, Forth is most popular in the US, then Canada, then the UK, then it flattens out. Brainfuck is most popular in Germany and the US. :)