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30. March 2015 .Net, F# Comment (3)

On Saturday I headed down to Thoughtworks in Soho, London for an F# Open Data Hackathon organized by Thoughtworker Sean Newham. We started up with questions we’d like to answer using open data. I was interested in finding the most prolific bloggers in .Net, and formed a team with Adam Kosiński, Emmet Cassidy and my son Sean. We had from around 11am to 3pm to answer the question and present the results.

Dew Drop

We used data mined from Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew site, which provides a labelled list of top links almost every week day since 2008.

Here’s Alvin’s activity since 2008:

Dew Drop Calendar 2008-2015

Alvin’s links covers many topics including .Net, Web, Mobile and XAML:

Dew Drop Tags 2008-2015

Top 100 .Net Bloggers

For this analysis we’re looking only at links labelled as “Top Links” or “.NET”. Between 2008 and 2015 there were over 20,000 links from over 3000 unique author names.

Interestingly the top 100 bloggers account for roughly half of all posts, and here’s the table of top 100 .Net bloggers based on data extracted from the Morning Dew:

Rank Name 2008  2009  2010  2011  2012  2013  2014  2015  Total
1 Greg Duncan 2 16 74 142 116 86 74 14 524
2 Oren Eini 31 71 76 42 94 49 32 12 407
3 Sean Sexton 0 0 0 0 0 193 195 0 388
4 Zain Naboulsi 0 0 236 56 17 37 3 0 349
5 Richard Carr 6 13 78 77 90 58 12 0 334
6 Eric Lippert 7 48 47 46 37 68 44 0 297
7 Raymond Chen 0 0 0 20 75 92 86 17 290
8 Scott Hanselman 28 16 38 39 44 37 50 7 259
9 MS Downloads 27 35 42 48 46 23 13 0 234
10 CodePlex 36 12 34 70 49 13 10 0 224
11 Sasha Goldshtein 4 16 30 31 22 25 19 7 154
12 Brian Harry 0 0 0 0 35 58 46 8 147
13 Julie Lerman 19 45 15 16 19 16 7 2 139
14 Scott Guthrie 3 12 47 18 19 24 12 2 137
15 Martin Hinshelwood 3 12 12 20 27 32 25 5 136
16 Mike Hadlow 6 16 30 21 25 22 4 0 124
17 Dhananjay Kumar 0 0 0 60 26 7 25 1 119
18 Derik Whittaker 24 21 21 21 18 8 6 0 119
19 Gunnar Peipman 1 40 36 9 9 15 4 1 115
20 Abhijit Jana 0 0 18 87 0 3 2 3 113
21 Ricardo Peres 0 0 0 6 15 31 38 13 103
22 Jimmy Bogard 19 18 14 12 7 5 18 6 99
23 Dennis Delimarsky 0 0 50 28 16 5 0 0 99
24 Peter Vogel 0 0 0 0 13 27 44 12 96
25 Jonathan Allen 0 0 11 19 25 15 17 9 96
26 Matthew Podwysocki 27 45 21 1 1 0 0 0 95
27 Rockford Lhotka 8 19 17 20 20 5 3 0 92
28 K. Scott Allen 11 8 14 15 19 11 8 3 89
29 Shai Raiten 0 0 18 40 22 9 0 0 89
30 Charles Sterling 3 8 4 6 25 24 15 1 86
31 Deborah Kurata 0 24 36 2 9 3 8 1 83
32 Phil Haack 3 5 10 31 13 11 6 0 79
33 James Michael Hare 0 0 8 38 24 3 0 3 76
34 Peter Kellner 2 18 10 8 22 9 3 3 75
35 Sacha Barber 7 4 5 9 4 8 31 7 75
36 Kunal Chowdhury 0 0 14 13 20 20 6 2 75
37 Pete Brown 3 6 28 17 16 3 2 0 75
38 Mike Taulty 7 9 9 10 13 4 21 1 74
39 Glenn Block 12 9 18 11 9 5 6 2 72
40 Miguel de Icaza 0 0 25 19 8 5 12 3 72
41 Davy Brion 7 30 26 9 0 0 0 0 72
42 Mary Jo Foley 0 3 1 20 17 16 12 2 71
43 Rick Strahl 9 13 1 11 15 8 7 7 71
44 Alex Skorkin 0 0 11 51 9 0 0 0 71
45 Jesse Liberty 3 0 10 13 19 4 15 1 65
46 Tatworth 0 0 0 14 30 7 14 0 65
47 Daniel Moth 17 23 0 12 6 3 4 0 65
48 Abhishek Sur 0 1 20 35 2 3 1 2 64
49 Clemens Reijnen 11 12 19 5 8 3 5 1 64
50 Justin Etheredge 25 20 16 3 0 0 0 0 64
51 Jeremy Likness 0 0 18 12 21 3 5 3 62
52 Iris Classon 0 0 0 0 37 16 6 3 62
53 Bill Wagner 0 7 2 21 11 7 11 3 62
54 Mark Needham 0 31 31 0 0 0 0 0 62
55 Harry Pierson 17 37 0 2 3 0 1 0 60
56 Rob Eisenberg 4 1 14 5 3 12 13 7 59
57 Steven Sinofsky 0 0 1 22 31 3 1 0 58
58 John Papa 8 3 7 3 13 15 7 0 56
59 Patrick Smacchia 9 8 11 12 10 4 2 0 56
60 Jon Skeet 6 1 0 15 9 5 16 3 55
61 Steve Smith 0 1 3 22 8 6 15 0 55
62 Bnaya Eshet 0 0 0 12 18 9 5 9 53
63 Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell 0 0 3 0 7 17 16 10 53
64 Shawn Wildermuth 7 13 8 6 10 1 6 2 53
65 Rory Primrose 0 0 19 18 7 7 2 0 53
66 Willy-P. Schaub 0 0 0 3 17 9 19 4 52
67 Kirill Osenkov 1 18 12 5 9 4 3 0 52
68 S.Somasegar 0 0 0 0 15 16 17 3 51
69 Bart de Smet 21 24 5 1 0 0 0 0 51
70 Laurent Bugnion 0 0 7 17 13 4 6 3 50
71 Eric Battalio 0 0 0 0 6 15 27 2 50
72 Maarten Balliauw 2 0 6 16 7 15 3 1 50
73 Don Syme 1 2 4 15 13 14 1 0 50
74 Gil Fink 1 4 24 20 1 0 0 0 50
75 Cameron Skinner 11 11 21 6 1 0 0 0 50
76 Dave M. Bush 7 25 5 0 0 3 7 2 49
77 Stephen Forte 4 21 21 3 0 0 0 0 49
78 Michael Crump 0 0 2 11 13 4 13 5 48
79 Kim Spilker 0 0 2 16 7 9 14 0 48
80 Jura Gorohovsky 0 0 5 12 15 12 4 0 48
81 Wally McClure 0 4 11 17 15 0 1 0 48
82 Jason Zander 0 10 13 5 18 0 1 0 47
83 Chris Sells 2 22 10 4 9 0 0 0 47
84 Marcelo Lopez Ruiz 1 2 37 5 1 0 0 0 46
85 Nicholas Blumhardt 0 4 6 6 1 7 18 3 45
86 Rob Reynolds 0 12 11 9 6 3 4 0 45
87 Dmitri Nesteruk 0 1 1 1 14 20 2 5 44
88 Rory Becker 0 0 13 11 1 1 18 0 44
89 Filip Ekberg 0 0 0 0 11 21 11 0 43
90 G. Andrew Duthie 2 12 4 4 20 1 0 0 43
91 Grigori Melnik 0 0 8 13 8 8 4 1 42
92 Jonathan Wood 0 0 6 21 4 0 8 3 42
93 Peter Ritchie 3 1 14 6 13 2 3 0 42
94 Rob Conery 10 2 4 15 5 1 5 0 42
95 Gian Maria Ricci 0 0 1 37 4 0 0 0 42
96 Anoop Madhusudanan 0 0 14 8 11 8 0 0 41
97 Jeff Blankenburg 0 1 15 6 19 0 0 0 41
98 Rowan Miller 0 0 5 4 4 10 15 2 40
99 Hadi Hariri 0 1 4 21 11 2 0 0 39
100 Yochay Kiriaty 3 15 15 6 0 0 0 0 39

Data

You can download the data from http://trelford.com/DewDropTo2015.csv

I’d be interested in hearing about what you find :)

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Comments (3) -

  • Greg Duncan

    3/30/2015 7:04:42 AM |

    Wow, how'd I make #1!? How cool is that! Alvin (and F#) FTW! Smile

  • Bill Sanderson

    3/30/2015 2:23:13 PM |

    Hmm that's odd that Jon Galloway is missing.

    He has 237 entries in your data.

  • phil

    3/30/2015 3:26:08 PM |

    @Bill thanks, as described in the article the calculation is quite crude, it only includes links posted by Alvin under the headings Top Links or .Net.  Jon Galloway has been linked many times, according to my calculations appearing most frequently in Podcasts / Screencasts / Video (85) & Web Development (18), he has appeared 13 times in Top Links and a couple of times in .Net specific categories.. Note also I'm not counting links with co-authorship or where the name has been misspelled.

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