Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Jakub Narebski writes: >> On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >>> Perhaps we can email survs.com and ask them? >> >> Should I do it, or would you do it? > > Er, why will they know who I am and give me this information? You've > been in touch with them before, I hope? Well, I sent a bit of feedback, bugreports and feature requests while Survs.com was still in beta... [...] >>> I suppose we could always work out a way to display the results from >>> the information Survs.com gives us. >> >> Do you have any idea how to display such geographical information, and >> what tool to use for that visualization? > > A quick Google search pointed me to several tools that parse a > plaintext file of (lattitude, longitude) entries and use the Google > Maps API to plot them. I'm sorry, but I don't know much more about > this. What we have is the names of countries (which can be quite large) rather than geographical coordinates. Perhaps use color to mark countries on the political map, or something? >>> Nice histogram! How did we manage to do this in 2009? Did we use a >>> custom-made application to do the survey? >> >> I used a Perl script, which uses Text::CSV to parse data exported from >> Survs.com in CSV format (and PerlIO::gzip to not have to decompress it). >> Each survey page on Git Wiki, except for the very first survey, contains >> link to file with such exported data. >> >> For example for age it extracts digits from the response, and assumes >> that it is number of years. It also creates this nice table of ranges >> that you can see in the mentioned section of GitSurvey2009 page. >> >> I can publish this script, e.g. the one used for 2009 survey on the >> GitSurvey2009 page, but it is rough'n'dirty script. > > Sounds good- we should create a small repository that contains all the > tools used, notes made, and results (in semantic format) of previous > surveys. Embarrassingly enough, I can't read Perl myself, but I'm sure > the others will find it useful. Also, isn't there some Perl module to > use Google Maps API to draw that map? Good idea. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html