Julia Silge, Stack Overflow Blog

What_City_Should_Amazon_Choose_For_Its_Second_Headquarters

Evaluating Options for Amazon’s HQ2 Using Stack Overflow Data

by Julia Silge on February 28, 2018

Amazon is a technology behemoth, employing half a million people globally and hiring nearly 130,000 people in 2017. Amazon has been headquartered in Seattle since its early days in the...

Remote Work in the 2017 Developer Survey

by Julia Silge on January 22, 2018

The 2018 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is open right now, and we on the Data Team are eagerly awaiting this year’s data so we can uncover new insights about the...

The Cliffs of Insanity: Dramatic Shifts in Technologies on Stack Overflow

by Julia Silge on November 13, 2017

Life as a developer (or data scientist, in my case) involves being comfortable with changing technologies. I don’t use the same programming languages that I did at the beginning of...

From Power Calculations to P-Values: A/B Testing at Stack Overflow

by Julia Silge on October 17, 2017

If you hang out on Meta Stack Overflow, you may have noticed news from time to time about A/B tests of various features here at Stack Overflow. We use A/B...

What You Need to Know to Transition to a Career in Data Science

by Julia Silge on October 5, 2017

Demand for developers with specialized skills is on the rise across the board, and companies are particularly interested in filling data science roles. A recent IBM study projects that the...