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Ask HN: Software Developer Statistics (a day in your life) (docs.google.com)
43 points by jaimefjorge on July 22, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 14 comments



Aw man, this is a poorly designed survey. The amount of data cleaning you'll have to do is tremendous. I would recommend spending a bit more time up front making drop-downs for units, verifying that numbers are entered, etc. You'll actually probably save a lot of time in data cleaning this way and your cleaned data will be more accurate.


I now.. :( In my defense, I did not imagine so many people answering it.


    What time of the day do you usually have each activity? 
		Morning 	Afternoon 	Night 	Disperse throughout the day
    [...]
    Lunch
    [...]
Um... is that a trick question, or is there a part of the world where lunchtime doesn't separate the morning from the afternoon ?


It began as a stupid question (an error of mine).. And as expected people eat in the afternoon (82%). However, 5% eat throughout the day and 2% dont eat at all, which is interesting :)



Just reached 3000 answers! Thank you HN for this! I am now closing this to start parsing the data. The kind people at @TrendCollective (http://www.trendcollective.com/) accepted my challenge to make an infographic out of this information. So expect to see this information in a cool way that was made entirely by the community! Awesome!


Link to follow up?


When you say "How much time do you spend on Emails?" does that mean just time with focus on the e-mail client, or does that include the time spent on gathering data to compose a response?


I guess gathering data. If your current task is to respond and email, then it should be considered as email time.


For 'how much down time do you get' I assumed (actually, wrote) 'per day' but I think it would be worth clarifying that (unless you did and I missed it :-)


I'm surprised by the number of people who don't drink coffee. High fives all around.


What will the data be used for?


To create a view like this one: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201109/inc-500-infographic-a-day... Hopefully to understand how we live daily as software developers


Almost all of the radio buttons needs to be toggle buttons.

I sometimes take the bus, sometimes my bicycle. I sometimes show up at work before 7 and sometimes after nine. I spend more time eating, but only because the company also provides breakfast. I code/hang out here both before and after dinner. My sleep schedule is as fucked as you can imagine, sometime it is less than 5, sometimes more than 10 and from time to time I work all night.

Which goes to say that I have no clue what a normal day would look like for me.




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