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So I took the 2016 numbers from this and used them to make this graph, using the same data but normalizing for github's growth - so its showing the % share of the overall instead of absolute #'s. It tells a different story:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zs1pO_8Q6RASJ6Mc10kB...

EDIT I don't think one is more correct than the other, its just another perspective. I didn't mean to imply the first one is incorrect.

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That legend is 100% useless. I'm not even color blind but I might as well be given how many shades of teal are involved.

Please, please, put the labels on or near the lines if possible. I'm not asking for the full Edward Tufte treatment here, but something sane would be greatly appreciated.

I did a similar thing, but plotting the absolute number in a log scale instead of the fractions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12fMABCdFtPhZf28DDY2h...

EDIT: Here's the fractions, stacked which I think is easier to look at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12fMABCdFtPhZf28DDY2h...

Here's all three years.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JAAfQBdKJ_2Tz0tVn7D9...

Nice, this is better. It also adds the 4 additional languages that were added to the graphs after I made mine.

What happened to Perl that it spikes to 12% for one month about 2 years ago? then it went back down to its normal obscurity at 1%.

Probably this happened https://github.com/gitpan

Yeah, it's hard to see what's going on without any normalization. Most of the languages do not actually grow.

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