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Thursday April 22, 2004

06:26 PM

[ #18440 ]

I wonder if we can track various things in the Perl world, and tie the fluctuations in those things to various economies.

Some things that might make pretty graphs as Perl leading indicators:

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Perl Graphs and Stats (Score:1)

by Fox (3246)

Perl Graphs and Stats [perl.org]
job stats (Score:3, Informative)

by TeeJay (2309) on 2004.04.23 3:51 (#30305) Homepage Journal

You might want to check out jobstats.co.uk [jobstats.co.uk], they have been following the UK IT job market since the late 90's and split by skill and region.
There was also an article in a recent DDJ about following jobstats (which in line with DDJ editorial policy forgot about perl, until readers prodded them to provide perl data too).

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Reminds me of craigslist's graph (Score:1)

by scrottie (4167)

Craigslist plotted the number of posts to each category after the dot com tread seperation/ rapid deflation/explosive decompression. I'm *sure* that he had some indication of the data he would find before he plotted it.

slowass.net/~scott/dotcomboom.gif [slowass.net].

-scott