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More Charts from HN Survey (Income, Age, Work Hours, Work Exp.)
- viggity 17y agoLet me know if you're interested in seeing more visualizations.
- jsonscripter 17y agoOther possible interesting graphs: * Family type v. income * Number of years in industry v. income * Hours per week v. family status * Age v. Employment type * Level of education v. Employment type * Marital status v. Employment type * Age v. Hours per week
- bsaunder 17y agoAge vs. Income as a density plot... the points are too close together to be meaningful.
- roundsquare 17y agoIf you have any visualisation techniques that are surprising or especially revealing I would be very interested both to look at the data and to learn about data visualisation.
- Derrek 17y agoThanks for doing that. Maybe also: Income vs Education. Income vs Location (maybe aggregated by country, state or city). And basically every other possible combination :)
- ScottWhigham 17y agoI was surprised to see that the number of respondents working "40 hours a week" more than doubled any other entry. I listed 65 and felt sure I would be just average. FML lol
- robryan 17y agoMost of the 40 hours a week people would probably be people just working full time jobs with no startup on the side.
- randallsquared 17y agoYeah, that's me right now. I'm taking a vacation from startups, so even though I still program all weekend, it's not "work" anymore. ;)
- icey 17y agoI wasn't sure how to respond to that question. I work 40 hours a week at my day job... but I work another 30+ hours a week on other projects (startup projects, etc).
- roundsquare 17y agoWhat did you report in the survey? Some people probably reported just their day job and others their total work. If anyone ever wants to do this again, they should try to see where interpretation was difficult and make it clear in the next survey.
- icey 17y agoI don't recall, but I think I just settled on 50 or 60, because I didn't want to skew results too incorrectly.
- clistctrl 17y agoI found it interesting that only 1.8% of the population seems to be female
- Novash 17y agoMe too. Seems to be increasing. :-P
- timcederman 17y agoSeem to be a surprisingly (?) high number of 300k+ earners. All Silicon Valley?
- joubert 17y agoThe income histogram has zeroes cut off on the horizontal axis. Or is it just me?
- ironchef 17y agoI don't think it's just the histogram. Check out the Age vs Income plot. There's no way people aren't making over 100k.
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- viggity 17y agoI cut off the age vs income plot at 100k because otherwise it would severely compress the points where it would be really hard to discern anything from it. There are people who reported over 100K.
- joubert 17y agoHow about reporting in 1000's, instead of including every zero? Typical in financial statements.
- viggity 17y agoI wanted to do that, but I'm not proficient enough in excel to do it quickly. Surprisingly enough, even getting the histograms was kind of a pain in the ass. I spent an hour and a half getting those 4 charts done.
- roundsquare 17y agoYeah, its always shocked me that Microsoft couldn't be bothered to put in decent histogram fucntionality where you can choose your buckets and it'll put together a histogram.
- tokenadult 17y agohttp://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tstart=36420 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta...
- tialys 17y agoOutstanding work! I'm glad to see other people making something interesting out of the data gathered.
- californiaguy 17y agoA bunch of young, inexperienced single men making less than 50k? Who would have thought.
- kyro 17y agoAlright. Who's the 26yr. old with 900k income?
- icey 17y agoI'll guess a troll or Matt Mullenweg ;)
- thetrumanshow 17y agoStaring at the Income/Frequency histogram, I am wondering why there is more clusering around the 10s and not the 5s. Ex: more salaries clustered around 60K, 70K, and 80K than around 65K, 75K, and 85K. I wonder if there is a tendency (intended or otherwise) for employers/managers/etc to push salaries towards these numbers. Do they seem more 'round'? I have some experience here, but I don't know if its really a trend. I was bumped up a while back from an 'uneven' salary to one of those clustering points. It was a small, strange, increase amount, but it was a welcome increase nonetheless!
- araneae 17y agoThe age distribution is absolutely beautiful.
- UncleOxidant 17y agoAnd kind of scary. It looks like a lot of people drop out of programming after 30... Of course, the other possibility (probability) is that most HackerNews readers are under 30.
- sam_in_nyc 17y agoDoes there exist any sort of web app that can take rows of data and allow the user to run statistical reports on it?