Friday, August 5, 2011

Coopr Download Fun

I stumbled across the following site, which provides download statistics for PyPI Python optimization packages:

   http://taichino.appspot.com/pypi_ranking/keyword/optimization

It was fun to see the different download package statistics. I'm quite curious that coopr.pysos has the highest number of downloads, since IMHO this package doesn't have much interesting functionality... Hmmm...

Another surprise for me is that so many optimization Python packages are _not_ on this list!  I am maintaining the following list of links for Python optimization packages:

   https://software.sandia.gov/trac/coopr/wiki/Documentation/RelatedProjects

Perhaps these packages were not tagged with the 'optimization' label ... or perhaps they were not downloaded enough to make the list?