Original results 2018–06, see updated above

Is TensorFlow really getting more attention than Git?

According to the Stack Overflow trends tool tensorflow is now more popular than git :

Does it make sense? While tensorflow deserves a lot of attention, git is one of the most popular tools for coders — within and beyond the machine learning community. Turns out the tool measures the number of new questions for each tag — and that’s only half of the story. What if we could compare the % of pageviews that each tags gets, vs the % of questions:

Top chart: Percentage of views that ‘git’ gets on Stack Overflow, vs ‘tensorflow’. Bottom chart: Percentage of new questions for each tag on Stack Overflow. Turns out ‘git’ gets way less new questions, but way more views.

What’s happening: Look at the charts — even if more questions are created each quarter for tensorflow , the questions tagged with git get at least 6 times more views.