Note: I “split” the excellent discussion by @patrickoferris as a separate topic, as it was going in the (very useful) direction of discussing broadly the ecosystem, rather than specifically the survey result. I would encourage people to post here for specific details on the survey process and results, and create new topics for discussions inspired by the survey.
Let me quote below the part of @patricoferris’ post that would be most useful to anyone interested in processing the results:
I think it’s quite important to take the results from this survey and find actionable items (or highlight ongoing efforts) which aim to improve different problems for different users. As a result I have put together some graphs trying to categorise the answers based on proficiency (
beginner,intermediate,advancedandexpert). These groupings are quite subjective but I thought it might offer a slightly more nuanced look into what problems users had, where they come from, what they are doing and what commonalities they share. The code is here and the HTML version of the notebook here (I’m no data-scientist nor python developerif you see glaring mistakes do raise an issue!).
The new topic has excellent discussion on Patrick’s findings from the survey data.