From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Subject: Re: Advertising the Git User's Survey 2011 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:56:48 +0530 Message-ID: <20101005032641.GA9014@kytes> References: <201010031655.40521.jnareb@gmail.com> <20101003180743.GK328@kytes> <201010040129.22302.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0?= Bjarmason , Git Mailing List To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 05 05:27:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P2yBz-00033h-L9 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:27:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757227Ab0JED1p (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 23:27:45 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:52619 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753666Ab0JED1p (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Oct 2010 23:27:45 -0400 Received: by qyk29 with SMTP id 29so1221710qyk.19 for ; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:27:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=OBIf2WqKFPDQQJIjd1CBZlNH9+nsK7AZqdbthvdsl8o=; b=rwUvWBBVbEiEi3Tl1AgI8nCCn9ZvxjEFzN6Kxtgh+PfXwT1Vxz5wK3gx5yVLnDW4en IPzXS3D++XeAUnRXyrLjda2rckhKb9lBxH2vAWpJdlIjCS7wqI6bp0bHVbBTxhyeOdgs z+v4qcWXybWCKUW3Ip7gYEFVnTbtgRWQ3of4I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=qwtAnqxTuUwlpdgZT5qsGf+jKCvNOdBxIG0dYFSWlH4gLLCqH/544MZILvkVC3din1 JdLP59XhvOK4F89+AR+iM3tG8UwOmBd+nCFRgC+dl2b/SjMH+jdBuXO5LpaiY3fQ6XUl 0M56jsYLbhOFWLVJUmgOusxas16CTr9fi9tkA= Received: by 10.229.182.141 with SMTP id cc13mr7907135qcb.56.1286249264475; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kytes ([203.110.240.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e5sm122096qcq.15.2010.10.04.20.27.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201010040129.22302.jnareb@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Jakub, Jakub Narebski writes: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > > Jakub Narebski writes: > >> On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >>> Perhaps we can email survs.com and ask them? > >> > >> Should I do it, or would you do it? > > > > Er, why will they know who I am and give me this information? You've > > been in touch with them before, I hope? > > Well, I sent a bit of feedback, bugreports and feature requests while > Survs.com was still in beta... Do contact them then, and let us know what the results are. > >>> I suppose we could always work out a way to display the results from > >>> the information Survs.com gives us. > >> > >> Do you have any idea how to display such geographical information, and > >> what tool to use for that visualization? > > > > A quick Google search pointed me to several tools that parse a > > plaintext file of (lattitude, longitude) entries and use the Google > > Maps API to plot them. I'm sorry, but I don't know much more about > > this. > > What we have is the names of countries (which can be quite large) rather > than geographical coordinates. Perhaps use color to mark countries on > the political map, or something? Right. Sure. > >>> Nice histogram! How did we manage to do this in 2009? Did we use a > >>> custom-made application to do the survey? > >> > >> I used a Perl script, which uses Text::CSV to parse data exported from > >> Survs.com in CSV format (and PerlIO::gzip to not have to decompress it). > >> Each survey page on Git Wiki, except for the very first survey, contains > >> link to file with such exported data. > >> > >> For example for age it extracts digits from the response, and assumes > >> that it is number of years. It also creates this nice table of ranges > >> that you can see in the mentioned section of GitSurvey2009 page. > >> > >> I can publish this script, e.g. the one used for 2009 survey on the > >> GitSurvey2009 page, but it is rough'n'dirty script. > > > > Sounds good- we should create a small repository that contains all the > > tools used, notes made, and results (in semantic format) of previous > > surveys. Embarrassingly enough, I can't read Perl myself, but I'm sure > > the others will find it useful. Also, isn't there some Perl module to > > use Google Maps API to draw that map? > > Good idea. I don't know if the Maps API allows for you to mark numbers on the map. After all, we don't needs markers for specific coordinates, but just a numerical label for each country. There's probably something to even contour-color the countries based on the number- I'll let you know if I find something we can use. -- Ram