Less Important Questions from StackOverflow's Developer Survey


<p>The StackOverflow <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-make-money-use-tabs/">post</a> on tabs vs. spaces made quite a splash yesterday with the revelation that people who indent their code with spaces earn more, on average, than people use tabs.</p>
<p>They've made their dataset available for <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/download-stack-overflows-2017-developer-survey-data/">download</a> so I wrote a quick script to see what else we can learn about developer salaries.</p>
<h2 id="gif-vs-jif">GIF vs. JIF</h2>
<p>There's not much difference.</p>
<p>
  <img src="http://i.imgur.com/8tGc1Ll.jpg" alt="">
</p>
<h2 id="choice-of-editor">Choice of editor</h2>
<p>This is the one we've all been waiting for.</p>
<p>
  <img src="http://i.imgur.com/pIBUFF8.jpg" alt="">
</p>
<h2 id="ship-it">Ship it?</h2>
<p>Fortune favors the bold.</p>
<p>
  <img src="http://i.imgur.com/w7wFLZY.jpg" alt="">
</p>
<h2 id="clicky-keys">Clicky keys</h2>
<p>You probably should just talk to your officemate instead of using this result.</p>
<p>
  <img src="http://i.imgur.com/dvDXBFa.jpg" alt="">
</p>
<h2 id="open-source-helps">Open source helps</h2>
<p>
  <img src="http://i.imgur.com/Pv9HgWV.jpg" alt="">
</p>
<p>Toward this end, I've <a href="https://github.com/typpo/stackoverflow-analysis">open sourced</a> this analysis. I still don't really know my way around pandas/Jupyter, so maybe you can do better.</p>


Less Important Questions from StackOverflow's Developer Survey

GIF vs. JIF

Choice of editor

Ship it?

Clicky keys

Open source helps

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