Weekly Viz 2022-01-10
GitHub Popular Languages 2012-2020
This week I am visualizing this GitHub Programming Language Data found on Kaggle. It is originally from the BigQuery’s public github_repos and githubarchive datasets. The data point I am looking at specifically is the # of PRs by lanaguges every quarter from 2012 to 2020. It’s interesting to see how the rank changes/stays.
My Visualization
To visualize the rank data, I chose the bump chart once more. I also put # of PR on the size to provide some info of the absolute PR counts.
Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.
Insights
- Starting at 3rd and 4th places at the beginning of 2012, ever since 2013, Python and JavaScript are the two leading the race with small distances between the two;
- However, Ruby, once the champion, has fallen to 7th place now, similarly, we see significant drop in the ranking of PHP;
- We also see some great upward treads of relatively newer languages like TypeScript and Go.
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