code • information design • art direction
The users of Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is a privately held website, the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network, created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. It was created to be a more open alternative to the earlier question and answer sites such as Experts-Exchange. Since 2011, they ask their visitors to take a survey, from topics such as technical expertise, professional expectations, and social delimiters. I have decided to cross some of these results and explore some of them regarding race and inequality, zeroing on education and salary analysis. The data is from the 2017 survey.![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b36e0e795ca8ef28de2055f73959e9996624a9a80b747e69d0ee6a60c90e881a/SO_1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/790288763353700bf58ae5301509fca4d2fc6c72b733264aa7f0d7759bee0527/SO_3.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11346fa9901574c772ec0c1161b1e57561874e514c78955a8907dab55c96d111/SO_2.jpg)
How this work was done
The data was parsed and then aggregated into two categories. Each row show a square for a specific answer from the survey; its area is related to the number of answers. The x-axis shows the answers by quartiles of yearly income, in US$ dollars.
The visualization was rendered with D3. Assignment for Info Aesthetics - Parsons 2017.