Some interesting data drawn from the “My Circle” autocompletion

Yes that's right. Among the users of My Circle, Microsoft Office is more popular than Golang or Kotlin. Details of how I learned this and links under the cut.

Once it became interesting to me to get a list of key, in the opinion of "My Circle" skills. No, well, you never know. Suddenly, it is important to be able not only to write on the script of the Tipscript, but also to juggle with the ferrets. The solution I chose was direct and simple.

Let's see where the auto-completion knocks when you enter the skill to get the options:
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https://moikrug.ru/suggest/skills?term=java&_=1518063342596

term obviously contains the beginning of the phrase, _ contains the timestamp in seconds.

And what does the server send us in response?



But this is already interesting. The number of users and popularity. Judging by the search, the number of users more or less true. Popularity is no less than the number of users and differs from it by a maximum of a couple of percent. I suppose that this parameter indicates the number of cases when the user indicated this skill, not taking into account over time, changed it to another.

After going over with the substitution of combinations of two letters in term, 1094 unique skills with values ​​of popularity were obtained. I lightly sprinkled this list with vanilla to get the sort and filter. Enjoy.

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Some time will be available here: 81.171.12.58

The filter is case-insensitive, the space separator or |, for example, the expression "java lang" will find all skills containing java or lang. An empty filter will show all available skills. Filters can be set in the address through a hash, for example 81.171.12.58/#java|scala

Please note that these data should not be regarded as accurate. First, people tend to overestimate their skills. Secondly, on “My Circle” you can find such exercises as multi-threaded carpenter and pastry-plasterer .

If you search, it turns out that a significant percentage of users of information technology are far away and the choice of skills from the options offered did not give the best result. I suppose that the carpenter had in mind that he has to do several things at once, and not at all multi-threaded wood carving. On the other hand, the plasterer-confectioner is very similar to the fake from young fans of Yevgeny Vaganovich and there are quite a few such fakes too.

However, it seems to me that the data reflect a fairly realistic picture. Using them wisely, you can get an idea of ​​how the Russian IT industry lives.