OS Version does not contain the total number

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OS Version does not contain the total number #4

Closed likudo closed 10 months ago

likudo commented 10 months ago

2023-12-09_010920

The sum of macOS in the raw data is 0.82% as you can see.

But the total share of OSX should be 1.53% at the moment (2023 Nov) https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

It seems CSV only contains the first 5 MacOS versions but not the rest, (maybe other categories too)

so we can not find out the total number of MacOS percentages from the raw data

jdegene commented 10 months ago

Thanks for flagging this, I'll add a disclaimer.

The reason behind this is because Steam doesn't give us all OS versions they are actually seeing in their survey (the Windows percentages also don't add up to 100%). Also, I'm only crawling the main page.

If you have a look at the "Mac Only" page, they actually include the option "other" which corresponds to the missing 0.71% that are missing from the main page Clipboard01