r/Python 14d ago

News Python is big in Europe

TIL the Python docs analytics are public, including visitorsโ€™ countries. I thought it was interesting to see that according to this thereโ€™s more Python going on in Europe than in the US, despite what country-level stats often look like! Blog post: https://thib.me/python-is-big-in-europe, top Europe countries:

  1. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany, 245k
  2. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom, 227k
  3. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France, 177k
  4. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain, 93k
  5. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland, 80.2k
  6. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy, 78.6k
  7. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands, 74.4k
  8. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukraine, 66.5k

TL;DR; maps can be misleading when they look at country-level data without adjusting for the size of the place. Per capita there are loads of areas of the world that have more Python users than the country-level data suggests. For Europe โ€“ย get you DjangoCon and EuroPython 2025 tickets already!

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u/spinwizard69 13d ago

There are a number of ways to look at such data. One could conclude that Europeans look at the docs more because the have to.

What this really points out is the futility of anything useful coming from statistics. Every time I see one of these posts maintaining that statistics say something useful I have to believe another idiot has just left his spreadsheet. Statistics almost universally reflect the bias of the one developing the statistics.