You can find my BigQuery queries in this gist. NOTE: these queries are in the “legacy” SQL syntax. The blog post below shows new “Standard” syntax.
I also wrote background information and context around BigQuery, and provided additional queries in this blog post.
By combining these queries and charting the results, we chart the adoption over time using new GitHub repos as a proxy.
Obviously there’s a lot of details here that are omitted but become apparent when you look into the data. You have to decide what’s important for determining what makes something “trending more popular”.