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Using API to collect tag information - data differences

I am trying to get a list of the most popular tags on StackOverflow. According to the SO page, these are the most popular tags as of today: enter image description here

Python tag has 6690 questions asked this week alone. When I use the Stack Exchange API page for the last 30 days, the most popular tag is wikidata-query-service with only 115: enter image description here

Am I doing something wrong? Where are these discrepancies coming from?