In reply to Nathan.

Plugin and theme developers (of course) care. But maybe the folks that actually have access to the data don’t.

It’s clear In Otto’s comment below that there just isn’t anyone on the .org team that has the resources to pay attention to big data. It's not a problem of political will, but of resource allocation.

The data dumps from Wikimedia that Paul mentions would be a fantastic start. If we can get some data released a community will quickly form around making something useful from that.

We would see the most fantastic bloom of projects since the wporg api itself.

The internet is the most important creation in the history of humanity. It is the first truly global connecting of cultures and people. We've built a quarter of it with WordPress.

Knowing the technical intricacies, dependencies and limitations of our collective work should be considered essential. Google has data on their slice. Facebook does as well. They and their peers proactively leverage, plan, and develop around this information. Why don't we?