[CMake-Promote] Usage Statistics

[Brandon J. Van Every]

William A. Hoffman wrote:

>At 07:05 PM 12/18/2005, you wrote:
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>>http://www.realmeme.com/Main/miner.jsp has a tool called the "Meme Miner" that can be used to search for trends about tech stuff, like CMake.  I would suggest that the people most interested in collecting statistics, go play with this tool, and tell us what your results are.  
>>Also locate any other tools of a similar nature that are useful for getting a picture of CMake's popularity or lack thereof.
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>There is something odd about that meme page.  For almost any term I can think of the
>graph always drops off around Apr 2005.  Try putting in google and creat a memgraph for
>it and although the numbers are bigger, the graph is the same shape as CMake. 
>(peaks around Jul 2005, and heads for zero in Oct 2005.
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Well, one of the pages did say that the data collected for the last 
month sucks, so discount it.  The tail of the graph is not reliable.  
Would that determine the shape you're seeing?


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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