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Use Google Trend to compare Programming Language Interest

From a recent exercise in which my objective was to use Google Trend Explore  to compare interests between Python and Ruby (programming languages) over the past few years. A question arised – python could be the snake, monty python, the programming language, etc. Likewise, ruby could be a type of gems, a programming language, etc. If I did a trend comparison between python and ruby, I might run into problem such as comparing trend interest between a python the snake, and ruby the programming language (instead of comparing a programming language to another). How do I gain confidence that when I do a trend of Python vs Ruby, I am indeed comparing apple-to-apple? (programming language to programming language?). Here is my approach: Compare the trends between “python language”, “python program”, and “python code”. I want to gain some confidence that all three mean more or less the same thing. python-trendDo the same for Ruby. Compare the trends between “ruby language”, “ruby program”, and “ruby code”. ruby-trend From the comparisons above, I believe I can make more or less “apple-to-apple” comparison between python and ruby (as programming languages). python-language-vs-ruby-language-trend python-program-vs-ruby-program-trend python-code-vs-ruby-code-trend Do some “eye-ball” comparisons between the above “python language” and “ruby language” trends, and make some fairly reasonable conclusion. I was actually hoping to see the above 3 trend comparisons to be more or less the same. Reality turns out they differ quite a bit. I guess more work is required to digest the data and make sense of it. Can you suggest a better way to compare interest of two programming languages? (e.g. Python and Ruby)? And what would be your conclusion? Would love to hear your thoughts.