Was exploring package popularity on pypi and noticed that last month Bokeh had quite an increase in number of downloads, just curious if there is could be a reason for that.
an old project with Bokeh as a dependency suddenly became more popular
some notebooks on Binder that use Bokeh suddenly became popular
a MOOC that requires using Bokeh just went live
a large company with centralized environment management added Bokeh to their setup
dev velocity on a project that includes Bokeh jumped, increasing CI use
PyPI made some change in their reporting methods
And many others I am sure I can’t think of of the top of my head.
Download numbers can be impacted in many ways, so they have to be taken with a fairly large grain of salt. [1] I definitely don’t pay them as much attention as I used to, except when they need to go into a grant proposal, etc.
Thanks, Bryan for the detailed answer here and all other support you are providing elsewhere, indeed there are a lot of possible reasons, but I hope it will get deserved popularity some day.