Walker Harrison articles - 23 total
Using Data Science for EdTech and Public Policy, with Alicia Powers
Alicia Powers is the Senior Vice President of Research at the New York City Ec...
Working as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow, with Julia Silge
Julia Silge is a data scientist at Stack Overflow. She studied physics and astronomy, finishing her P...
Flash is dead 💀 (kind of)
Earlier today, Adobe published a blogpost announcing that they would be gradually sunsetting their well known plugin, Flash.
Turning a side interest in programming into a data engineering career, with Josh Laurito
Josh Laurito is the head of data engineering at Fusion Media Group, the publisher of the web’s most w...
Pseudo-Random Numbers in Python: From Arithmetic to Probability Distributions
Randomness is something that we tend to take for granted in our daily lives. "That's so random!" we'l...
Github releases results from its 2017 Open Source Survey
By surveying over 5,000 respondents from open source repos on their site, Github has put together a "open data set about the attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software."
What's the best software for creating flowcharts and other visuals to document application logic?
I'm looking to create some flowcharts, but I'm only aware of the obvious solutions like PowerPoint or...
Google announces support for Kotlin on Android, now what?
At their annual I/O conference in the Bay Area, Google announced this afternoon that Android would now support the Kotlin language.
Stack Overflow released a new mobile app
My first impulse would be to question the utility of a Stack Overflow app, since I'm confident that the vast majority of programmers that rely on the question-answer website do so while they write code on a personal computer and not their phones.
Stack Overflow just released a tool called "Trends" that tracks the popularity of programming terms over time.
This tool should allow developers to make more data-driven choices about their careers.
The 500-foot Cab Ride: Using BigQuery to find out how dirty (sinister?) NYC's cab ride data is
Is the data dirty in a conventional sense or in a criminal manner?
Working Smart: What performance metrics do developers value and when do they feel most productive?
Hire programmers that communicate well and have documented successes with the right tools; allow them to iterate often and adapt quickly; and worship the customer or user's experience while understanding time and budget restraints.
Are developers underpaid? Many of them think so, according to recent research
Users of newer, more popular languages like Elixir, Rust, and Clojure more often report being overpaid, while users of more established languages like Visual Basic and PHP more often report being underpaid.
%$#@ This: Combing through 183 million git commits to find out when and how developers use the f-word
Spoiler: PHP and CSS were among the language most associated with the f-word.
Using Google's BigQuery to Better Understand the Python Ecosystem
Getting to know BigQuery and feeling the power of sifting through mountains of data in just a few seconds.
Two thirds of developers work remotely at least some of the time, and this number is highly correlated with job satisfaction.
Unpacking some of the data from the Stack Overflow developer survey
Bootstrapping Your Education: Vast majority of coders rely on self-teaching and online resources
Shared online resources are tremendously important to ongoing software learning
Javascript's Persistent Popularity: No one seems to particularly enjoy the language, but everyone is using it
Stack Overflow released the results of their annual developer survey last week, and for the fifth con...
Diving Into the Results of the 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
60,000 developers dishing the goods
The Search for Self: How to obtain and analyze your history of Google searches
Downloading, preparing, and analyzing the data from your search history
Grid Unlock: Using a simulation in Python to demonstrate a faster way to walk
Using Python to compare two route-taking methodologies, with the results visualized in plot.ly
Memorylessness at the Bus Stop: Using R on transit data to test a hypothesis
I'm a data blogger and a statistics student who likes to run experiments on his hometown of New York...
