The Future of Data Professionals According to Stack Overflow
Platforms, databases, and languages you will most likely see in the future according to data developers
Introduction
Stack Overflow is an awesome developer community. There is no denying it. And the best part is that that we all use it one way or another. I was able to find some of the python syntax that is used to transform the data and create the plots for today’s article. And all of that data is open to the public.
How can we use this data to figure out what to learn? Are there some databases, platforms, or languages that should be avoided? I will be analyzing both the survey data from 2017 to 2021. While looking at the survey data and the questions data today, I want to draw some hypothesis or theories about where we are going in the data realm. What languages will we be using? What databases? How about platforms?
Interested in looking how I got the data and these plots? Take a look at my Kaggle notebook here.
Datasets
Surveys
The primary dataset was Stack Overflow Datasets 2011 to Present²; I combined this dataset with the results from this year’s Stack Overflow survey results found here.¹ A lot of the initial code work I performed was based upon the work that…
