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Julia Silge
August 27, 2019
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Publishing the Stack Overflow Developer Survey
August 2019 talk at Pluralsight LIVE in SLC
Julia Silge
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Transcript
Publishing the Stack Overflow Developer Survey Pluralsight LIVE 2019
Photo Placeholder Data Scientist, Stack Overflow Hello! I’m Julia Silge
@juliasilge
Global survey of 90,000 people who code
Qualified Responses Worldwide Location People Europe 36,073 North America 25,526
Asia 18,273 South America 3,459 Africa 2,850 Australia/Oceania 2,434 Other (country not listed) 268
United States 23.6% India 10.2% Germany 6.6% United Kingdom 6.5%
Canada 3.8% France 2.7% Brazil 2.2% Poland 2.2%
1 Developer Identities
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Many developers are early in their career 41% Have less
than 5 years professional coding experience
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2 The Work of Writing Code
Technologies cluster in related ecosystems
Solving coding problems
3 Jobs and Salary
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“ How did we get there?
Embrace efficient tools
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├── DESCRIPTION ├── LICENSE ├── LICENSE.md ├── NAMESPACE ├── R
│ ├── bar.R │ ├── dsl.R │ ├── graph-bar.R │ ├── graphing.R │ ├── love-dread-want.R │ ├── render-survey.R │ ├── survey_sections.R │ ├── utils.R │ └── wrap-graph.R ├── README.md ├── data ├── data-raw │ ├── README_2019.txt │ ├── b2b.Rmd │ ├── b2b.md │ ├── b2b_custom_regional.Rmd │ ├── b2b_custom_regional.md Embrace efficient tools
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Collaborate across disciplines
Choosing technologies
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Be mindful of data impact
Data for Humans
Skewed Irrelevant Irresponsible
Skewed Irrelevant Irresponsible Tweets used by permission
Data for Humans
“ Where are we now?
Interesting Awesome Comprehensive
Interesting Awesome Comprehensive
Interesting Awesome Comprehensive
Thanks! Find me at @juliasilge and https://juliasilge.com/