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I've answered 1) and 3) below.

Thanks for the link in 5)! That's really useful.

I really like the two visualizations you've made -- I'll definitely look into incorporating some of those ideas when I have time.

Yeah! This is something that I'm interested in, but there are a bunch of privacy issues with a raw data dump (references to specific files/URLs and possibly passwords), and I haven't gotten around to making sure it's safe yet.

(note: I haven't actually seen any passwords, but that doesn't mean there aren't any)

I've spent quite some time looking at those histograms, but I haven't found a good way to display it usefully yet.

The most popular commands are 'git', 'ls', and 'cd', and the table of most used commands is too long to be able to easily digest. Any suggestions would be appreciated, though!

Someone pointed out to me the 'ls' typo constellation =D

http://jvns.ca/projects/unix-command-survey/graph.html?cente...

good question! The issue is that everyone uses git, so it's not correlated with any other commands.

do you know about the organization Software Carpentry? http://software-carpentry.org/

They work on teaching scientists to be better at software, and are always looking for people to do workshops

Thanks very much! As of 2:14pm, it's using your new version for greater pipe accuracy =)

Yup, this oversight is officially embarrassing.

Excellent point. I'm definitely going to put that caveat at the beginning of any analysis I post. (and thanks to ctrl_freak for posting an alternative!)

Yes! I don't want to know anybody's secrets. I won't be publishing the raw data for this reason, in case anything like this gets through by accident.

Huh, I didn't know that. What command gives the entire history on OS X, then?

You can leave your email address in the form if you want to get an update when I post them.

I'll also post the results to HN, of course :)

Excellent idea! I am investigating how to best do that.