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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list