The Big Picture

Seems today is the day I discover tools to get "big pictures":

• Google Trends was released
  
• I have discovered Worldmapper
  

Google Trends is a really interesting tool. You can type in a search term and Google Trends shows you a timeline how often this term was searched for. Additionally it shows you the top ten locations where the most searches for this term originated.

As a programmer I had to try it by checking the trends of a few programming languages. Seems Ruby is quite stable, but compared to Java it has not gained much impact. However, that fact is quite understandable, given the high number of Java programmers.

Comparing two popular frameworks of both languages, namely the Spring framework and Ruby on Rails leads also to interesting results (I know that these frameworks can not be considered "equivalent").

The other tool, Worldmapper, is also nice. As an Austrian, I found the Tourist Destinations Map especially interesting.