From c6c2d25cb561946e993e5dc5919afed8017cd087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 20:18:23 -0500 Subject: add etherpads to wiki pages --- 2022/talks/survey.md | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) (limited to '2022/talks/survey.md') diff --git a/2022/talks/survey.md b/2022/talks/survey.md index 87104bcf..259c8031 100644 --- a/2022/talks/survey.md +++ b/2022/talks/survey.md @@ -22,6 +22,66 @@ Outline: - Discussion of motivation, implementation, and future plans +# Discussion + +## Notes + +- 2020: 7000 participants in the survey (Adrien Brochard) +- 2022: new survey framework: julia (language) + Genie Framework +- 2022: 6600 responses (1000 partial); 115 nations; 96% male (better + among younger people) +- the plots are using Makie, a Julia plotting library + +## Questions and answers + +- Q: Do Emacs developers take into account the survey results? I mean, + they are volunteers working on what they find useful/interesting for + them, which is of course great. + - A: There\'s no obligation for emacs-devel or Emacs package + maintainers to do anything in response to the survey results, + but hopefully the results will be able to inform development + choices they make. +- Q: Is the survey software available in source code via + Gitlab/Github/\...? What\'s the license? + - A: Yep, it\'s GPL-3, and the source is availible at + +- Q: Are the raw results available so we can run some data analysis + ourselves? + - A: Indeed! As mentioned in the talk they\'re publically + availible in a number of formats, e.g. + - + - + - +- Q: Any specific reason why you chose Julia as a language to code the + survey (curious about it)? + - A: I use it a lot, and like doing so :) +- Q: Do you have any insight on the degree of selection bias (the + respondents may represent a very particular segment of the overall + users, in terms of motivation to respond). The nb of days of + response after announce may indicate that respondents are very much + in touch with emacs news. + - A: We can try to look at the degree to which the survey referrer + (r/emacs, HN, etc.) changes the survey results, but ultimately + this is a hard question. At the end of the day, the way I view + things is we can just do our best to investigate how much of an + effect is seen in the results, but this is the best shot we have + availible. + - A2: That said, we can compare a few particular statistics to + other surveys done in a wider population to gauge how close our + results are to them, but that assumes that those other surveys + (e.g. Stack Overflow\'s developer survey) are themselves + representative of the Emacs user base, itself can be quite an + assumption. +- Q: Are the pies in gnuplot or something else? + - A: The plots are using Makie, a Julia plotting library. +- Q: Thoughts on an emacs package to fill out the survey? Just more + work for you ;) + - A: Hopefully more work for someone else ;) +- Q: Is the survey framework open sourced already or still in the + works? + - A: (replied above, IIUC) it\'s GPL-3 and the source is available + at + [[!inline pages="internal(2022/info/survey-after)" raw="yes"]] -- cgit v1.2.3