Stack Overflow trends: Weekday vs weekend site activity
Is everybody coding on the weekends? Is everybody learning Rust?
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
David Gibson
David is a Senior Data Scientist on Stack Overflow's Data Team. Prior to that he was an Analyst on the Marketing team. He is responsible for all things data and prides himself on bridging the gap between business and data science. Stay tuned, more data stories to come...
Asked and answered: the results for the 2022 Developer survey are here!
The state of software development is...
The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where tech talent is moving next
Distributed work may hold the key to creating forward thinking metropolises.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
An unfiltered look back at April Fools’ 2022
As with any good joke, the most important part is the resulting data.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
The 2022 Developer Survey is now open
The 2022 Developer Survey is ready for your input.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
New data: Do developers (and their employers) care about their wellness?
As May is Mental Health Awareness Month, we wanted to see what developers are doing to decrease that stress and prioritize their own wellness. Earlier this year, we surveyed over 800 developers to see if they are happy at work and what they are doing to maintain or improve mental health.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
New data: Do developers think Web3 will build a better internet?
Are blockchain and Web3 the future or are they just a fad? We asked the developer community about Web3, blockchain, crypto, and whether they are all hype or truly the future of the internet.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
New data: Top movies and coding music according to developers
Programmers cannot live on code alone. We asked about the movies and music that best fit with programming.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
New data: What makes developers happy at work
Turns out developers and plants need mostly the same things.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
Here’s how Stack Overflow users responded to Log4Shell, the Log4j vulnerability affecting almost everyone
When the Log4j security issue was disclosed, developers came looking for answers. We took a look at our site data around it.
David Gibson
Senior Data Scientist
How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know.
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.
