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:
- Number of posts to jobs.perl.org
- Number of new module uploads
- Size of CPAN
- Number of downloads of stable.tar.gz
Perl Graphs and Stats
Fox on 2004-04-23T04:09:07
Perl Graphs and Stats
job stats
TeeJay on 2004-04-23T08:51:53
You might want to check out
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).
Reminds me of craigslist's graph
scrottie on 2004-04-23T11:47:37
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/user/scott/dotcomboom.gif.
-scott
