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This article is an example of how not to visualize data. The charts are not helpful in any way.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25782/sourceforge.html
Pretty eye-opening. What's clear is that the 'Other' category brings so much uncertainty to the data that it renders the data virtually useless.
This article is an example of how not to visualize data. The charts are not helpful in any way.
God, yes. It frustrated me so much that I ended up just copying the data into JS arrays and generating my own charts using the Google Visualization API. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25782/sourceforge.html Pretty eye-opening. What's clear is that the 'Other' category brings so much uncertainty to the data that it renders the data virtually useless.
Linux downloads have declined because most developers get binaries from their distribution and fewer and fewer old projects (i.e. those from source forge) need to be downloaded as source. OS X is a backwater as far as binary distribution is concerned and so developers have to use brew or macports. Every time you do "brew install blah" you have a 1/3 chance of downloading a project from source forge.
I'd like to see the statistics comparing github, gitorious, bitbucket, google code, heck, even codeplex. SourceForge is no longer the only goto for compiling from source, either.
Unsurprisingly, Windows dominates with more downloads than all others combined.
As mentioned in lots of other comments, Linux users go to their package manager -- an App Store that runs 100% off promotions 24/7. Mac users have an App Store now. Windows users are still using SourceForge.
This article is an example of how not to visualize data. The charts are not helpful in any way.
God, yes. It frustrated me so much that I ended up just copying the data into JS arrays and generating my own charts using the Google Visualization API. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25782/sourceforge.html Pretty eye-opening. What's clear is that the 'Other' category brings so much uncertainty to the data that it renders the data virtually useless.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6353242/hn/sourceforge-area-normaliz...
You can get a real sense for how large the 'other' datapoint is by looking at non-normalized view as well:
Unsurprisingly, Windows dominates with more downloads than all others combined.
Linux downloads have declined because most developers get binaries from their distribution and fewer and fewer old projects (i.e. those from source forge) need to be downloaded as source. OS X is a backwater as far as binary distribution is concerned and so developers have to use brew or macports. Every time you do "brew install blah" you have a 1/3 chance of downloading a project from source forge.
$ cd /usr/local/Library/Formula
$ ls -l | wc -l
1807
$ cat * | grep url | grep sourceforge | wc -l
396