I threw together a little code tonight to calculate the Katz centrality of packages on Hackage. This is a measure that states that a package is important if an important package depends on it. The definition is recursive, as is the matrix computation that converges towards a fixpoint to calculate it.
Here are the top hundred Hackage packages as calculated by this method, along with their numeric measures of centrality, to which I’ve given the slightly catchier name “mojo” here.
This method has a few obvious flaws: it doesn’t count downloads, nor can it take into account packages that only contain executables. That said, the results still look pretty robust.
| package | mojo |
|---|---|
| base | 10000 |
| ghc-prim | 9178 |
| array | 1354 |
| bytestring | 1278 |
| deepseq | 1197 |
| containers | 994 |
| transformers | 925 |
| mtl | 840 |
| text | 546 |
| time | 460 |
| filepath | 441 |
| directory | 351 |
| parsec | 299 |
| old-locale | 267 |
| template-haskell | 247 |
| network | 213 |
| process | 208 |
| vector | 208 |
| pretty | 187 |
| random | 172 |
| binary | 158 |
| QuickCheck | 130 |
| utf8-string | 128 |
| stm | 119 |
| unix | 116 |
| haskell98 | 100 |
| hashable | 96 |
| attoparsec | 92 |
| old-time | 88 |
| primitive | 87 |
| aeson | 72 |
| unordered-containers | 70 |
| syb | 69 |
| data-default | 67 |
| split | 64 |
| transformers-base | 63 |
| blaze-builder | 62 |
| monad-control | 62 |
| conduit | 62 |
| semigroups | 59 |
| cereal | 57 |
| tagged | 57 |
| bindings-DSL | 55 |
| HUnit | 55 |
| gtk | 54 |
| Cabal | 54 |
| lens | 50 |
| OpenGL | 46 |
| haskell-src-exts | 45 |
| cmdargs | 45 |
| HTTP | 44 |
| http-types | 43 |
| extensible-exceptions | 43 |
| glib | 42 |
| utility-ht | 41 |
| data-default-class | 38 |
| parallel | 35 |
| resourcet | 34 |
| semigroupoids | 34 |
| xml | 34 |
| comonad | 33 |
| lifted-base | 33 |
| cairo | 33 |
| safe | 32 |
| MissingH | 31 |
| exceptions | 31 |
| base-unicode-symbols | 31 |
| ansi-terminal | 31 |
| vector-space | 30 |
| nats | 30 |
| OpenGLRaw | 30 |
| monads-tf | 28 |
| wai | 28 |
| hslogger | 28 |
| regex-compat | 28 |
| GLUT | 27 |
| void | 27 |
| blaze-html | 26 |
| hxt | 25 |
| dlist | 25 |
| zlib | 25 |
| hmatrix | 24 |
| SDL | 24 |
| case-insensitive | 24 |
| scientific | 23 |
| X11 | 23 |
| tagsoup | 22 |
| regex-posix | 22 |
| HaXml | 22 |
| system-filepath | 22 |
| enumerator | 22 |
| contravariant | 21 |
| base64-bytestring | 21 |
| http-conduit | 21 |
| blaze-markup | 21 |
| MonadRandom | 20 |
| failure | 20 |
| test-framework | 20 |
| xhtml | 20 |
| distributive | 19 |
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Wow. I appreciate your insights!
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Hey there! So, this method we’re using has a couple of flaws when we use it in Marietta – it doesn’t count downloads and can’t take into account packages that only contain executables. But, don’t worry, the results still look pretty solid!
Thanks for providing the link. Been on the lookout for this one Vancouver Metalwork
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The article is much appreciated. Amazing write up
Retaining Wall Contractors
Amazing work. The classic attoparsec blog.
Concrete Finishing Victoria
That sounds like an interesting project for drywall! Katz centrality is a measure of centrality in a network that takes into account the total number of walks between a pair of actors.
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More power!
This is a classic blog. Construction
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