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State Of The Web Data - Call For Analysis!

Jess Lee on August 27, 2018

A few weeks ago, we released a survey to learn more about your thoughts on The State Of The Web. Today, we're sharing all of the data we collected ...
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Rick Viscomi

I've added the dataset to the HTTP Archive's project on BigQuery for easier analysis. Fellow project member Paul Calvano has also been doing a lot of great analysis into this dataset over at discuss.httparchive.org/t/the-dev-...

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Tammy Miller

I am very late in submitting mine but wanted to get it kind of just right. I put my insights on my Github page which can be found at developbit.github.io/. I look forward to doing more of these. It was great to analyze the data and to be part of the community. #sotwsurvey

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Jess Lee

This is awesome, thanks Tammy!

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Tammy Miller

I want to share my insights. Cannot wait to post.

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Ben Halpern

Woohoo!

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Jonathan Irvin

@jess "People talk about Git a lot". ;)

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Ed Hazledine

That last question is where all the juicy data will be.

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Reeveo

Could drop it into Kaggle as a dataset?

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Rick Viscomi

Not Kaggle but I put it on BigQuery: bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/ht...

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Sung M. Kim

I can't seem to load the query...

no archive

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Rick Viscomi

You may need to create a Google Cloud project in order to access it. You can find a walkthrough in the HTTP Archive docs: github.com/HTTPArchive/legacy.http...

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Sung M. Kim

Thanks Rick 🙏.

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John Bristowe

Ahoy hoy. I hacked something together here: sotw-survey-2018.stackblitz.io/

Yes, it's ugly. And it needs work. And more math.

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Matheus Mohr

Great job on the visualizations, specially the highlighted grids for emphasizing the number of occurrences in an easy-to-see way.

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Ben Halpern

@rpalo I feel like you may have fun with this.

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Ryan Palo

I’m on it!

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Martin Himmel • Edited

No analysis yet, but if anyone wants a quick and dirty visualization of the data, I threw this together this morning:

martyhimmel.github.io/DEV-state-of...

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dev.to "State of the Web" survey results

A quick and dirty visualization of the results from dev.to's "State of the Web" survey.

The surveyresults.csv file has the original data from the Call for Analysis post.

results.json includes a cleaned up version to make it easier to use with Google Charts. Answers of "(blank)" and "" were removed and duplicate questions (multiple choice questions - the results were stored in multiple columns in the CSV) were merged. The parser script handles most of it, with the exception of merging the questions and their respective answer arrays.


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Mikhail Panichev

I think that bar charts are better for "rating" questions like "Building for the web is becoming easier over time"

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Martin Himmel

I fully agree. That's why I added the "quick and dirty visualization" note. :)

I haven't spent much time on it yet. Basically parsed the data to a JSON file, fed the data into a loop, and called it good for a quick view. A few of the labels need some work, too (like 0/1 for true/false or yes/no).

I'll get around to better formatting/styling at some point, but it's low priority right now. I just wanted to get something out there for anyone wanting to visualize the results.

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Reeveo

After looking through the questions i think we are missing probably the most important question:
Do you use a light or dark theme in your IDE/text editor...

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Tammy Miller

I know today is the deadline to post, but what time is the deadline?

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Jess Lee

6pm EST would be ideal :)

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Tammy Miller

I will display much later tonight. That is ok as long as it posted in my case.

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Jess Lee

Sounds good!

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Max Cerrina

I am so used to CSVs where each column name is like one word that when I first opened it up I was like "what the hell this isn't even a -- oh, huh, sure is isn't it. 😂

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Matheus Mohr

Got to it a little to late to share my findings, but i'll have lots of fun with it nevertheless :P

And thanks for sharing!