{"id":110,"date":"2009-07-06T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T02:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2009-07-06T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T02:33:10","slug":"more-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/more-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"More Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One followup to Naty&#8217;s article (below): <a href=\"http:\/\/kesen.huang.googlepages.com\/\">Ke-Sen Huang&#8217;s page<\/a> has submission and acceptance stats for many recent conferences.<\/p>\n<p>If you have five minutes to kill, it&#8217;s fun to search on various phrases at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\">Google Trends site<\/a>. Buzzwords like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=cloud+computing&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">cloud computing<\/a>&#8221; have trackable data, but most graphics terms don&#8217;t have enough traffic to be worth recording. Here are some examples of graphics-related terms that have sufficient hit-counts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=ray+tracing&amp;ctab=183103552&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all\">Ray Tracing<\/a> &#8211; I like how Google Trends points out relevant articles for various spikes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=SSAO&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">SSAO<\/a> &#8211; some definite spikes there, and what&#8217;s with all the traffic from Brazil? Is this the end of some word in Portugese? But there aren&#8217;t really hits before 2007, so I guess it&#8217;s real&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=collision+detection&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">Collision detection<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=SIGGRAPH&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">SIGGRAPH<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=computer+graphics&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">computer graphics<\/a> &#8211; is interest in these areas waning, or are they simply established and not newsworthy? But then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=GPU&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">GPU<\/a> is going up.<\/li>\n<li>Companies and products are fun to try: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=Larrabee&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">Larrabee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=NVIDIA&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">NVIDIA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=Crytek&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">Crytek<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You can also compare various terms. Here&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=iphone+programming,+directx+programming,+opengl+programming&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">DirectX programming, OpenGL programming, iPhone programming<\/a>&#8220;. Pretty easy to guess which one is going up. Surprisingly un-spikey for DirectX and OpenGL.<\/li>\n<li>And of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends?q=real-time+rendering&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0\">Real-Time Rendering<\/a> &#8211; Various random spikes; South Korea loves us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Happy hunting, and please do comment if you find any interesting results.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One followup to Naty&#8217;s article (below): Ke-Sen Huang&#8217;s page has submission and acceptance stats for many recent conferences. If you have five minutes to kill, it&#8217;s fun to search on various phrases at the Google Trends site. 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