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Also note that the tools are currently (6/2019) sorted in each category by their rough popularity, using the pypi downloads, conda downloads, stars, and contributors columns. This ordering is currently static, generally having been computed on the day each library was added to the list, but it could presumably be automated based on some formal metric. Across these projects, there are relatively few cases where using one or the other of these metrics would give different orderings; e.g. popular projects tend to have a lot of stars, lots of contributors, lots of PyPi downloads, and lots of Conda downloads. The biggest discrepancies I can see are between PyPi and Conda downloads -- some projects are clearly used more by Conda users, and others more by PyPI users.

Conda download numbers are tricky because of the various channels through which packages can be obtained; I think the current numbers include the main Anaconda channels, conda-forge, and bioconda, not any of the other channels. The holoviz tools are officially distributed using the pyviz channel, not the indexed channels, and other projects may have similar issues. If we could make a single merged "total downloads per month" badge I think I'd favor using that as the sorting order, but hopefully the rough approximate ordering is ok for now.

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In order to sort them by live measures of the total downloads per month, we would need to go to the source instead of using the badge for pypi downloads. This is the source: https://pypistats.org/api/packages/{package_name}/recent

This would be kind of nice to do anyways because then we could coerce the download counts onto the same colormap which would improve legibility of the badges.

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For now I've used the updated matching counts to sort them all by current total downloads per month in #20, which is at least objective, but it won't be updated over time unless we add the above capability.

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