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2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
Results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, wrapped in a convenient R package for easy analysis.
Install using devtools:
devtools::install_github("dgrtwo/stacksurveyr")
Data
This package shares the survey results as two datasets. First is stack_survey:
library(dplyr)
library(stacksurveyr)
stack_survey
#> Source: local data frame [56,030 x 66]
#>
#> respondent_id collector country un_subregion so_region
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 1888 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 2 4637 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 3 11164 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 4 21378 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 5 30280 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 6 31355 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 7 31743 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 8 51301 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 9 13017 Facebook Albania Southern Europe Eastern Europe
#> 10 24487 Facebook Albania Southern Europe Eastern Europe
#> .. ... ... ... ... ...
#> Variables not shown: age_range <fctr>, age_midpoint <dbl>, gender <chr>,
#> self_identification <chr>, occupation <chr>, occupation_group <chr>,
#> experience_range <fctr>, experience_midpoint <dbl>, salary_range <fctr>,
#> salary_midpoint <dbl>, big_mac_index <dbl>, tech_do <chr>, tech_want
#> <chr>, aliens <chr>, programming_ability <dbl>, employment_status <chr>,
#> industry <chr>, company_size_range <fctr>, team_size_range <fctr>,
#> women_on_team <chr>, remote <chr>, job_satisfaction <chr>, job_discovery
#> <chr>, dev_environment <chr>, commit_frequency <chr>, hobby <chr>,
#> dogs_vs_cats <chr>, desktop_os <chr>, unit_testing <chr>, rep_range
#> <fctr>, visit_frequency <chr>, why_learn_new_tech <chr>, education
#> <chr>, open_to_new_job <chr>, new_job_value <chr>, job_search_annoyance
#> <chr>, interview_likelihood <chr>, how_to_improve_interview_process
#> <chr>, star_wars_vs_star_trek <chr>, agree_tech <fctr>, agree_notice
#> <fctr>, agree_problemsolving <fctr>, agree_diversity <fctr>,
#> agree_adblocker <fctr>, agree_alcohol <fctr>, agree_loveboss <fctr>,
#> agree_nightcode <fctr>, agree_legacy <fctr>, agree_mars <fctr>,
#> important_variety <fctr>, important_control <fctr>, important_sameend
#> <fctr>, important_newtech <fctr>, important_buildnew <fctr>,
#> important_buildexisting <fctr>, important_promotion <fctr>,
#> important_companymission <fctr>, important_wfh <fctr>,
#> important_ownoffice <fctr>, developer_challenges <chr>,
#> why_stack_overflow <chr>.
This contains one row for each survey respondent and one column for each question. It follows the format of the the released survey dataset at stackoverflow.com/research, with some post-processing to turn questions with a natural order (such as "experience range") into ordered factors.
The package also contains a schema data frame describing each of the columns in stack_survey, including the original text of each question:
stack_schema
#> Source: local data frame [66 x 4]
#>
#> column type
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 respondent_id inferred
#> 2 collector inferred
#> 3 country single
#> 4 un_subregion inferred
#> 5 so_region inferred
#> 6 age_range single
#> 7 age_midpoint inferred
#> 8 gender single
#> 9 self_identification multi
#> 10 occupation single
#> .. ... ...
#> Variables not shown: question <chr>, description <chr>.
Each question has one of three types:
single columns have a single answer on a multiple choice questionmulti columns allowed multiple answers, which are delimited by ; in the textinferred columns are not themselves survey questions, but are processed versions of other answers
Examples: Basic exploration
There's a lot of simple questions we can answer using this data, particularly using the dplyr package. For example, we can examine the most common occupations among respondents:
stack_survey %>%
count(occupation, sort = TRUE)
#> Source: local data frame [28 x 2]
#>
#> occupation n
#> <chr> <int>
#> 1 Full-stack web developer 13886
#> 2 NA 6511
#> 3 Back-end web developer 6061
#> 4 Student 5619
#> 5 Desktop developer 3390
#> 6 Front-end web developer 2873
#> 7 other 2585
#> 8 Enterprise level services developer 1471
#> 9 Mobile developer - Android 1462
#> 10 Mobile developer 1373
#> .. ... ...
We can also use group_by and summarize to connect between columns- for example, finding the highest paid (on average) occupations:
salary_by_occupation <- stack_survey %>%
filter(occupation != "other") %>%
group_by(occupation) %>%
summarize(average_salary = mean(salary_midpoint, na.rm = TRUE)) %>%
arrange(desc(average_salary))
salary_by_occupation
#> Source: local data frame [26 x 2]
#>
#> occupation average_salary
#> <chr> <dbl>
#> 1 Executive (VP of Eng., CTO, CIO, etc.) 103073.93
#> 2 Engineering manager 101047.08
#> 3 Enterprise level services developer 79855.62
#> 4 DevOps 68731.96
#> 5 Product manager 68598.62
#> 6 Growth hacker 67878.79
#> 7 Machine learning developer 67041.80
#> 8 Data scientist 66508.75
#> 9 Business intelligence or data warehousing expert 65660.92
#> 10 Developer with a statistics or mathematics background 65625.76
#> .. ... ...
This can be visualized in a bar plot:
library(ggplot2)
library(scales)
salary_by_occupation %>%
mutate(occupation = reorder(occupation, average_salary)) %>%
ggplot(aes(occupation, average_salary)) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
ylab("Average salary (USD)") +
scale_y_continuous(labels = dollar_format()) +
coord_flip()
Examples: Multi-response answers
10 of the questions allow multiple responses, as can be noted in the stack_schema variable:
stack_schema %>%
filter(type == "multi")
#> Source: local data frame [10 x 4]
#>
#> column type
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 self_identification multi
#> 2 tech_do multi
#> 3 tech_want multi
#> 4 dev_environment multi
#> 5 education multi
#> 6 new_job_value multi
#> 7 how_to_improve_interview_process multi
#> 8 star_wars_vs_star_trek multi
#> 9 developer_challenges multi
#> 10 why_stack_overflow multi
#> Variables not shown: question <chr>, description <chr>.
In these cases, the responses are given delimited by ;. For example, see the tech_do column (""Which of the following languages or technologies have you done extensive development with in the last year?"):
stack_survey %>%
filter(!is.na(tech_do)) %>%
select(tech_do)
#> Source: local data frame [49,025 x 1]
#>
#> tech_do
#> <chr>
#> 1 iOS; Objective-C
#> 2 Android; Arduino / Raspberry Pi; AngularJS; C; C++; C#; Cassandra; CoffeeSc
#> 3 JavaScript; PHP; SQL; WordPress
#> 4 PHP
#> 5 Arduino / Raspberry Pi; C; C++; Java; JavaScript; LAMP; PHP; SQL
#> 6 Android; Cordova; MongoDB; PHP; SQL; WordPress
#> 7 C#; Dart; Java; JavaScript; LAMP; PHP; SQL; SQL Server; Visual Basic; WordP
#> 8 Java; JavaScript; LAMP; PHP; SQL; SQL Server
#> 9 Android; C++; C#; Cloud (AWS, GAE, Azure, etc.); Python; SQL Server
#> 10 SQL
#> .. ...
Often, these columns are easier to work with and analyze when they are "unnested" into one user-answer pair per row. The package provides the stack_multi function as a shortcut for that unnestting:
stack_multi("tech_do")
#> Source: local data frame [225,075 x 3]
#>
#> respondent_id column answer
#> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 4637 tech_do iOS
#> 2 4637 tech_do Objective-C
#> 3 31743 tech_do Android
#> 4 31743 tech_do Arduino / Raspberry Pi
#> 5 31743 tech_do AngularJS
#> 6 31743 tech_do C
#> 7 31743 tech_do C++
#> 8 31743 tech_do C#
#> 9 31743 tech_do Cassandra
#> 10 31743 tech_do CoffeeScript
#> .. ... ... ...
For example, we could find the most common answers:
stack_multi("tech_do") %>%
count(tech = answer, sort = TRUE)
#> Source: local data frame [42 x 2]
#>
#> tech n
#> <chr> <int>
#> 1 JavaScript 27385
#> 2 SQL 21976
#> 3 Java 17942
#> 4 C# 15283
#> 5 PHP 12780
#> 6 Python 12282
#> 7 C++ 9589
#> 8 SQL Server 9306
#> 9 AngularJS 8823
#> 10 Android 8601
#> .. ... ...
We can join this with the stack_survey dataset using the respondent_id column. For example, we could look at the most common development technologies used by data scientists:
stack_survey %>%
filter(occupation == "Data scientist") %>%
inner_join(stack_multi("tech_do"), by = "respondent_id") %>%
count(answer, sort = TRUE)
#> Source: local data frame [42 x 2]
#>
#> answer n
#> <chr> <int>
#> 1 Python 507
#> 2 SQL 356
#> 3 R 352
#> 4 Java 240
#> 5 JavaScript 207
#> 6 C++ 155
#> 7 C 125
#> 8 Hadoop 108
#> 9 SQL Server 98
#> 10 Spark 97
#> .. ... ...
Or we could find out the average age and salary of people using each technology, and compare them:
stack_survey %>%
inner_join(stack_multi("tech_do")) %>%
group_by(answer) %>%
summarize_each(funs(mean(., na.rm = TRUE)), age_midpoint, salary_midpoint) %>%
ggplot(aes(age_midpoint, salary_midpoint)) +
geom_point() +
geom_text(aes(label = answer), vjust = 1, hjust = 1) +
xlab("Average age of people using this technology") +
ylab("Average salary (USD)") +
scale_y_continuous(labels = dollar_format())
License
The package, code, and examples are licensed under the GPL-3 license.
The survey data itself (which is contained in the data-raw directory and available online here), is made available by Stack Exchange, Inc under the Open Database License (ODbL). Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License (ODbL)
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
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2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
Results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, wrapped in a convenient R package for easy analysis.
Install using devtools:
devtools::install_github("dgrtwo/stacksurveyr")
Data
This package shares the survey results as two datasets. First is stack_survey:
library(dplyr)
library(stacksurveyr)
stack_survey
#> Source: local data frame [56,030 x 66]
#>
#> respondent_id collector country un_subregion so_region
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 1888 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 2 4637 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 3 11164 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 4 21378 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 5 30280 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 6 31355 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 7 31743 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 8 51301 Facebook Afghanistan Southern Asia Central Asia
#> 9 13017 Facebook Albania Southern Europe Eastern Europe
#> 10 24487 Facebook Albania Southern Europe Eastern Europe
#> .. ... ... ... ... ...
#> Variables not shown: age_range <fctr>, age_midpoint <dbl>, gender <chr>,
#> self_identification <chr>, occupation <chr>, occupation_group <chr>,
#> experience_range <fctr>, experience_midpoint <dbl>, salary_range <fctr>,
#> salary_midpoint <dbl>, big_mac_index <dbl>, tech_do <chr>, tech_want
#> <chr>, aliens <chr>, programming_ability <dbl>, employment_status <chr>,
#> industry <chr>, company_size_range <fctr>, team_size_range <fctr>,
#> women_on_team <chr>, remote <chr>, job_satisfaction <chr>, job_discovery
#> <chr>, dev_environment <chr>, commit_frequency <chr>, hobby <chr>,
#> dogs_vs_cats <chr>, desktop_os <chr>, unit_testing <chr>, rep_range
#> <fctr>, visit_frequency <chr>, why_learn_new_tech <chr>, education
#> <chr>, open_to_new_job <chr>, new_job_value <chr>, job_search_annoyance
#> <chr>, interview_likelihood <chr>, how_to_improve_interview_process
#> <chr>, star_wars_vs_star_trek <chr>, agree_tech <fctr>, agree_notice
#> <fctr>, agree_problemsolving <fctr>, agree_diversity <fctr>,
#> agree_adblocker <fctr>, agree_alcohol <fctr>, agree_loveboss <fctr>,
#> agree_nightcode <fctr>, agree_legacy <fctr>, agree_mars <fctr>,
#> important_variety <fctr>, important_control <fctr>, important_sameend
#> <fctr>, important_newtech <fctr>, important_buildnew <fctr>,
#> important_buildexisting <fctr>, important_promotion <fctr>,
#> important_companymission <fctr>, important_wfh <fctr>,
#> important_ownoffice <fctr>, developer_challenges <chr>,
#> why_stack_overflow <chr>.
This contains one row for each survey respondent and one column for each question. It follows the format of the the released survey dataset at stackoverflow.com/research, with some post-processing to turn questions with a natural order (such as "experience range") into ordered factors.
The package also contains a schema data frame describing each of the columns in stack_survey, including the original text of each question:
stack_schema
#> Source: local data frame [66 x 4]
#>
#> column type
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 respondent_id inferred
#> 2 collector inferred
#> 3 country single
#> 4 un_subregion inferred
#> 5 so_region inferred
#> 6 age_range single
#> 7 age_midpoint inferred
#> 8 gender single
#> 9 self_identification multi
#> 10 occupation single
#> .. ... ...
#> Variables not shown: question <chr>, description <chr>.
Each question has one of three types:
singlecolumns have a single answer on a multiple choice questionmulticolumns allowed multiple answers, which are delimited by;in the textinferredcolumns are not themselves survey questions, but are processed versions of other answers
Examples: Basic exploration
There's a lot of simple questions we can answer using this data, particularly using the dplyr package. For example, we can examine the most common occupations among respondents:
stack_survey %>%
count(occupation, sort = TRUE)
#> Source: local data frame [28 x 2]
#>
#> occupation n
#> <chr> <int>
#> 1 Full-stack web developer 13886
#> 2 NA 6511
#> 3 Back-end web developer 6061
#> 4 Student 5619
#> 5 Desktop developer 3390
#> 6 Front-end web developer 2873
#> 7 other 2585
#> 8 Enterprise level services developer 1471
#> 9 Mobile developer - Android 1462
#> 10 Mobile developer 1373
#> .. ... ...
We can also use group_by and summarize to connect between columns- for example, finding the highest paid (on average) occupations:
salary_by_occupation <- stack_survey %>%
filter(occupation != "other") %>%
group_by(occupation) %>%
summarize(average_salary = mean(salary_midpoint, na.rm = TRUE)) %>%
arrange(desc(average_salary))
salary_by_occupation
#> Source: local data frame [26 x 2]
#>
#> occupation average_salary
#> <chr> <dbl>
#> 1 Executive (VP of Eng., CTO, CIO, etc.) 103073.93
#> 2 Engineering manager 101047.08
#> 3 Enterprise level services developer 79855.62
#> 4 DevOps 68731.96
#> 5 Product manager 68598.62
#> 6 Growth hacker 67878.79
#> 7 Machine learning developer 67041.80
#> 8 Data scientist 66508.75
#> 9 Business intelligence or data warehousing expert 65660.92
#> 10 Developer with a statistics or mathematics background 65625.76
#> .. ... ...
This can be visualized in a bar plot:
library(ggplot2)
library(scales)
salary_by_occupation %>%
mutate(occupation = reorder(occupation, average_salary)) %>%
ggplot(aes(occupation, average_salary)) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
ylab("Average salary (USD)") +
scale_y_continuous(labels = dollar_format()) +
coord_flip()
Examples: Multi-response answers
10 of the questions allow multiple responses, as can be noted in the stack_schema variable:
stack_schema %>%
filter(type == "multi")
#> Source: local data frame [10 x 4]
#>
#> column type
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 self_identification multi
#> 2 tech_do multi
#> 3 tech_want multi
#> 4 dev_environment multi
#> 5 education multi
#> 6 new_job_value multi
#> 7 how_to_improve_interview_process multi
#> 8 star_wars_vs_star_trek multi
#> 9 developer_challenges multi
#> 10 why_stack_overflow multi
#> Variables not shown: question <chr>, description <chr>.
In these cases, the responses are given delimited by ;. For example, see the tech_do column (""Which of the following languages or technologies have you done extensive development with in the last year?"):
stack_survey %>%
filter(!is.na(tech_do)) %>%
select(tech_do)
#> Source: local data frame [49,025 x 1]
#>
#> tech_do
#> <chr>
#> 1 iOS; Objective-C
#> 2 Android; Arduino / Raspberry Pi; AngularJS; C; C++; C#; Cassandra; CoffeeSc
#> 3 JavaScript; PHP; SQL; WordPress
#> 4 PHP
#> 5 Arduino / Raspberry Pi; C; C++; Java; JavaScript; LAMP; PHP; SQL
#> 6 Android; Cordova; MongoDB; PHP; SQL; WordPress
#> 7 C#; Dart; Java; JavaScript; LAMP; PHP; SQL; SQL Server; Visual Basic; WordP
#> 8 Java; JavaScript; LAMP; PHP; SQL; SQL Server
#> 9 Android; C++; C#; Cloud (AWS, GAE, Azure, etc.); Python; SQL Server
#> 10 SQL
#> .. ...
Often, these columns are easier to work with and analyze when they are "unnested" into one user-answer pair per row. The package provides the stack_multi function as a shortcut for that unnestting:
stack_multi("tech_do")
#> Source: local data frame [225,075 x 3]
#>
#> respondent_id column answer
#> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 4637 tech_do iOS
#> 2 4637 tech_do Objective-C
#> 3 31743 tech_do Android
#> 4 31743 tech_do Arduino / Raspberry Pi
#> 5 31743 tech_do AngularJS
#> 6 31743 tech_do C
#> 7 31743 tech_do C++
#> 8 31743 tech_do C#
#> 9 31743 tech_do Cassandra
#> 10 31743 tech_do CoffeeScript
#> .. ... ... ...
For example, we could find the most common answers:
stack_multi("tech_do") %>%
count(tech = answer, sort = TRUE)
#> Source: local data frame [42 x 2]
#>
#> tech n
#> <chr> <int>
#> 1 JavaScript 27385
#> 2 SQL 21976
#> 3 Java 17942
#> 4 C# 15283
#> 5 PHP 12780
#> 6 Python 12282
#> 7 C++ 9589
#> 8 SQL Server 9306
#> 9 AngularJS 8823
#> 10 Android 8601
#> .. ... ...
We can join this with the stack_survey dataset using the respondent_id column. For example, we could look at the most common development technologies used by data scientists:
stack_survey %>%
filter(occupation == "Data scientist") %>%
inner_join(stack_multi("tech_do"), by = "respondent_id") %>%
count(answer, sort = TRUE)
#> Source: local data frame [42 x 2]
#>
#> answer n
#> <chr> <int>
#> 1 Python 507
#> 2 SQL 356
#> 3 R 352
#> 4 Java 240
#> 5 JavaScript 207
#> 6 C++ 155
#> 7 C 125
#> 8 Hadoop 108
#> 9 SQL Server 98
#> 10 Spark 97
#> .. ... ...
Or we could find out the average age and salary of people using each technology, and compare them:
stack_survey %>%
inner_join(stack_multi("tech_do")) %>%
group_by(answer) %>%
summarize_each(funs(mean(., na.rm = TRUE)), age_midpoint, salary_midpoint) %>%
ggplot(aes(age_midpoint, salary_midpoint)) +
geom_point() +
geom_text(aes(label = answer), vjust = 1, hjust = 1) +
xlab("Average age of people using this technology") +
ylab("Average salary (USD)") +
scale_y_continuous(labels = dollar_format())
License
The package, code, and examples are licensed under the GPL-3 license.
The survey data itself (which is contained in the data-raw directory and available online here), is made available by Stack Exchange, Inc under the Open Database License (ODbL). Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License (ODbL)
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
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