I had taken the opposite tack with Google Trends by subtracting keywords like: SAS -shoes -airlines -sonar... but never got as good results as that beautiful "X code for" search. When you see the end-of-semester panic bumps in traffic, you know you're nailing it!
I see that there's a car, the R Code Mustang, that adding "for" gets rid of. Thanks for getting me back on a topic that I had given up on! Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] >On Behalf Of Joris Meys >Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:56 PM >To: Dario Solari >Cc: r-help@r-project.org >Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata... > >Nice idea, but quite sensitive to search terms, if you compare your >result on "... code" with "... code for": >http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=r%20code%20for%2Csas%20code%20 f >or%2Cspss%20code%20for&cmpt=q > >On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Dario Solari <dario.sol...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> First: excuse for my english >> >> My opinion: a useful font for measuring "popoularity" can be Google >> Insights for Search - http://www.google.com/insights/search/# >> >> Every person using a software like R, SAS, SPSS needs first to learn >> it. So probably he make a web-search for a manual, a tutorial, a >> guide. One can measure the share of this kind of serach query. >> This kind of results can be useful to determine trends of >> "popularity". >> >> Example 1: "R tutorial/manual/guide", "SAS tutorial/manual/guide", >> "SPSS tutorial/manual/guide" >> >http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20tutorial%22%2B%22r%20ma n >ual%22%2B%22r%20guide%22%2B%22r%20vignette%22%2C%22spss%20tutorial%22%2 B >%22spss%20manual%22%2B%22spss%20guide%22%2C%22sas%20tutorial%22%2B%22sa s >%20manual%22%2B%22sas%20guide%22&cmpt=q >> >> Example 2: "R software", "SAS software", "SPSS software" >> >http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20software%22%2C%22spss%2 0 >software%22%2C%22sas%20software%22&cmpt=q >> >> Example 3: "R code", "SAS code", "SPSS code" >> >http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20code%22%2C%22spss%20cod e >%22%2C%22sas%20code%22&cmpt=q >> >> Example 4: "R graph", "SAS graph", "SPSS graph" >> >http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20graph%22%2C%22spss%20gr a >ph%22%2C%22sas%20graph%22&cmpt=q >> >> Example 5: "R regression", "SAS regression", "SPSS regression" >> >http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20regression%22%2C%22spss % >20regression%22%2C%22sas%20regression%22&cmpt=q >> >> Some example are cross-software (learning needs - Example1), other can >> be biased by the tarditional use of that software (in SPSS usually you >> don't manipulate graph, i think) >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > >-- >Joris Meys >Statistical consultant > >Ghent University >Faculty of Bioscience Engineering >Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control > >tel : +32 9 264 59 87 >joris.m...@ugent.be >------------------------------- >Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
