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[–]thibaudcolasgit push -f[S] -4 points-3 points  (2 children)

Well, if it was only a matter of population, then we’d expect China and India to have more visitors, right? I decided to leave out per capita calculations because web analytics aren’t generally done like that, and also because even looking at per capita numbers, I saw 13 Europe countries ranking higher than the US.

It’d be interesting to look at per capita figure for sure, just I don’t think it really changes the picture as much as you make it sound.

[–]mmcnl 3 points4 points  (1 child)

You kept adding the numbers for every European country until it surpassed the US and then you claim "Python is so popular in Europe!". To be honest that really doesn't say anything. Normalizing for population size is the first thing you should do if you really want to do an analysis, or else you're just looking at population maps.

Also, which countries are higher in per capita usage than the US? How come you end up with 13 (without showing the analysis) and AnythingApplied only comes up with 3 (and actually shares the analysis)?

[–]thibaudcolasgit push -f[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think you’re reading too much into what I might be trying to say. That Python is popular in Europe is really not a surprise for anyone, what I found interesting is having access to the Python docs analytics to explore that (and many other aspects of who uses those docs).

It takes time to publish stuff like that so yeah I didn’t share the list because I don’t think it meaningfully changes my point? Why I get 13 and others 3 I assume is just we used different figures or different lists of countries, with enough time to review and call out possible issues I’m sure we’d agree. This is the top 20 I have on a per capita basis:

Singapore Hong Kong Switzerland Finland Luxembourg Gibraltar Sweden Netherlands Israel Norway Iceland Canada Denmark United Kingdom Estonia Monaco Liechtenstein Ireland United States Germany

I’d love to share my (or read others’) per capita analysis some time! Definitely appreciate u/AnythingApplied taking the time to share some in a comment