Code for a Living Archives

code-for-a-living July 24, 2019

Making Sense of the Metadata: Clustering 4,000 Stack Overflow tags with BigQuery k-means

Felipe Hoffa, a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, explains how he used BigQuery to organize Stack Overflow tags into interesting groups.

Felipe Hoffa Developer Advocate

code-for-a-living July 16, 2019

Google got Looker. Salesforce bought Tableau. But open source tools are rising in popularity across the world of business intelligence and data analysis.

Big companies are spending billions to acquire popular startups offering toolkits for data analysis. But open source alternatives provide developers another, more flexible option.

Alessio Civitillo and Aaron Shekey

code-for-a-living July 9, 2019

Medical School or Games Industry? Osso VR’s Founder Chose Both.

There is a growing lack of practice time for students and doctors to work on their surgical techniques. A new VR training system thinks it can help.

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist - Former

code-for-a-living July 2, 2019

Sing Me A Song of Stack Overflow: A Musical Tail Call Optimization

When Anjana Vakil and Natalia Margolis applied to speak at !!Con (read Bang Bang Con) this year, they wanted to take the call for ‘non-traditional’ talks to heart while still sharing useful insights. They decided to tackle the following question: why recursion poses a problem for the finite-memory call stack. That could be quite a…

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living June 20, 2019

Knowledge Engineering: Intuit’s Chief Innovation Officer Explains Their Approach to AI

We are entering a new era in artificial intelligence, one where exciting breakthroughs seem to arrive every week. But the roots of today’s AI revolution actually date back many decades. So what changed? The catalyst for the recent advances is the fact that these techniques can now leverage unprecedented amounts of data and computing horsepower.…

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living June 19, 2019

Stack Speaks: Talking text mining and developer data on the Cause A Scene podcast

Stack Speaks is a chance for us to highlight interesting appearances, talks, and presentations from Stack Overflow employees. Recently, I sat down with Kim Crayton as a guest on her #causeascene podcast. Kim is a coach, speaker, and leader who helps tech organizations put their values into operation and learn how to identify organizational barriers…

Julia Silge Data Scientist (former)

code-for-a-living June 12, 2019

Stack Overflow and Pursuit: Nurturing A New Generation of Developers

Stack Overflow is excited to partner with Pursuit, a social impact organization working to create a more diverse and inclusive tech industry through coding education and career mentorship.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living May 13, 2019

How Expensify Engineers Save Hours Each Week With Stack Overflow For Teams

Engineers from Expensify talk about how they are using Stack Overflow for Teams to improve collaboration and how it saves them hours of wasted time each week.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living May 6, 2019

Predicting Stack Overflow Tags with Google’s Cloud AI

Check out a cool project that leverages Stack Overflow Data and Google's Cloud AI to predict what tags would work best on Stack Overflow questions.

Guest Post

code-for-a-living February 7, 2019

How the 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Came to Be (And Your Last Chance to Take it!)

For nine years, we at Stack Overflow have fielded a survey, asking people who code about their opinions on a variety of topics, from whether they prefer a dark or light theme in their IDE to how their challenges change with experience. This is a huge project for us each year, with contributions in 2019…

Julia Silge Data Scientist (former)

code-for-a-living January 23, 2019

Our 2019 Developer Survey is Open to Coders Everywhere!

What languages do you want to work with next year? Are you more productive in an office or working from home? When did you write your first line of code? We want to hear from you in our annual developer survey! The survey, now in its ninth year, launches today and anyone who codes is…

Khalid El Khatib VP, Marketing and Communications