Fun With Trend Analysis
Java, Web Development August 10th, 2008Here’s two trend analysis examples from two different sources that I use regularly.
The first is based on job posting keywords which is useful to gauge how marketable your skill set is or how likely you are to find staff given the skills you require. Here’s a simple example. Go Java!
via: indeed.com
The second is based on search engine requests for given keywords which is useful to gauge interest and popularity of a given framework or api. Here’s a simple example comparing searches for popular Java MVC frameworks.
via: google.com/trends
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November 25th, 2008 at 5:18 PM
It’s interesting to note how much more rapidly Ruby job requests are growing relative to the constant growth of everything else, even if the number of actual job requests are much lower than Java for example: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2C+c%2B%2B%2C+c%23%2C+javascript%2C+perl%2C+php%2C+ruby%2C+&l=&relative=1