Marty has started to analyse the blog data he retrieved from use.perl.org.

At the minute we are just looking at the collocates for “Perl”. Unsurprisingly “use perl” came out at the top but given the data source we are going to ignore that.

• Perl 6 – 9,455 collocated occurrences
• Perl code – 6,392 collocated occurrences
• Perl source – 6,301 collocated occurrences
• Wall Perl – 5,650 collocated occurrences
• Larry Perl – 4,109 collocated occurrences
• Perl 5 – 3,852 collocated occurrences
• Perl unfortunately – 2,936 collocated occurrences
• Perl Mongers – 2,769 collocated occurrences
• Perl bug – 2,736 collocated occurrences
• Perl Foundation – 2,732 collocated occurrences
• Perl TODO – 2,722 collocated occurrences
• Perl journal – 2,469 collocated occurrences
• Perl course – 2,355 collocated occurrences
• Perl programmers – 2,123 collocated occurrences
• best Perl – 1,859 collocated occurrences
• Perl6 Synopsis – 1,451 collocated occurrences
• Perl6 doc – 1,450 collocated occurrences
• Perl Horrors -1,332 collocated occurrences
• Perl community – 1,005 collocated occurrences

The results for “Perl community” are being skewed because nearly 60% of the occurrences are from acme’s blog. I have no idea what “Perl Horrors” refers to and Marty is postulating that the occurrences of Perl 5 are low because that’s what people usually mean when they refer to “Perl” on its own.

There is still lots to do before I have a sensible way to display the results and also before I can graph their development over time.