Hi Jakub, Jakub Narebski writes: > 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... Do contact them then, and let us know what the results are. > >>> 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? Right. Sure. > >>> 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. I don't know if the Maps API allows for you to mark numbers on the map. After all, we don't needs markers for specific coordinates, but just a numerical label for each country. There's probably something to even contour-color the countries based on the number- I'll let you know if I find something we can use. -- Ram -- 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