# \[Update\] Julia Observer: Stack Overflow, Trending & Julia.jl's Categories

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [June 15, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289 "2017-06-15T16:26:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289/1 "2017-06-15T16:26:10Z")

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Hi All,

It’s been a couple months since the last one of these, so I thought:

- I’d share [Julia Observer](https://juliaobserver.com)’s progress
- Ask what you guys want next

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In terms of non-bug fixes, the following features have been added:

- Requires/Used-By lists
- Stack Overflow news items
- Trending packages\* // daily, weekly, monthly
- Improved search capabilities
- An [About](https://juliaobserver.com/about) page

If any toys you want are missing from the site, feel free to suggest them now

Thanks all! Keep up the good fight 🙂

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_\*scraped from: [https://github.com/trending/julia](https://github.com/trending/julia)_

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**Author:** ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289/2 "2017-06-15T16:54:15Z")

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For reference, these are the current suggestions:

- [Tag per package](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tag-per-package/4174)
- [https://github.com/djsegal/julia\_observer/issues/36](https://github.com/djsegal/julia_observer/issues/36)
- [https://github.com/djsegal/julia\_observer/issues/45](https://github.com/djsegal/julia_observer/issues/45)

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**Author:** ![ExpandingMan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/expandingman/32/866_2.png) [@ExpandingMan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ExpandingMan)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289/3 "2017-06-15T17:11:08Z")

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This site is a great resource, thanks.

A couple of suggestions:

- The categories don’t seem quite as useful as they could be. For one, they are not ordered alphabetically. We might benefit from more description or fewer categories. For example, MXNet could go in “GPU”, “Computing”, “Stats” or even “Opt” or “Math”. (I’m assuming the categories are not necessarily disjoint sets?) Also, “Astro” and “Astrodynamics” are both categories. I realize these names are generated algorithmically somehow, so I’m not sure what the solution would be.
- It would be nice if search results were sort-able in the same manner as other lists.

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**Author:** ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289/4 "2017-06-15T17:22:47Z")

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Thanks for the suggestions!

- sorting on search results sounds good to me
- how to implement categorization has been an issue from the beginning

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If you have any ideas on how categorization should be done, I would be very happy to listen to them.  
That would be a nice thing to have working.

[https://github.com/djsegal/julia\_observer/issues/40](https://github.com/djsegal/julia_observer/issues/40)

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289/5 "2017-06-15T18:00:07Z")

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There’s a long standing open Julia issue about adding tags to packages. I think this is included in Pkg3? I guess we’ll find out next week (JuliaCon).

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**Author:** ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289/6 "2017-06-24T21:08:27Z")

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Search results are now sortable in the same manner as other lists

// whoopsie. broke the website for a second there…

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**Author:** ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289/7 "2017-07-08T05:56:05Z")

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Just fixed categories to be more in line with what you mentioned (i.e. julia observer uses Julia.jl’s data for category building)

// repeat of this post

> [@Curated List of Packages](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/curated-list-of-packages/4523/6):
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> Based on what you said, I made the category sidebar on julia observer use category info from svaksha’s Julia.jl // desktop only
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> Can you give some suggestions on formatting? I think it’s definitely a step in the right direction, though

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**reminder:** suggestions are always welcome 🙂

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**Post date:** [July 8, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/update-julia-observer-stack-overflow-trending-julia-jls-categories/4289/8 "2017-07-08T16:37:47Z")

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Looking nice! This’ll be a useful resource.