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This looks great! It does take a while to load though (I suppose that is expected with all the D3 plots).

Other things that would be cool to see on this: - TLDR - Top level insights - Drill down ability - make it more interative. See if there are more noticable trends when you only look at people who said they used Javascript/are Junior etc. - Pay bracket - Drill down on Location (are there any geographys where particular skills are rife) - Any demographic information you have (sex, ethnicity, level of education, school attended)!

Those comments aside though - this is very cool. I like how you think about work.

Hey lion_del,

Thanks for your comments - great to see you guys like what we're doing. A lot of the filters/drill downs you mentioned we are going to implement features of service. We want to provide analytics to the community, not only in the form of assets like infographics, but real time data on the website itself.

Our thinking is.....Software Engineers not only want to see great opportunities with cool employers, but also find out about market trends, data about their career track, how they compare to other engineers and against open opportunities.

The stuff you mentioned in your comment is 100% aligned with the information we want to provide. Workshape (check it out if you haven't already done so: https://www.workshape.io/) is going to be more than just a matching service for talent - its going to be resource for technology workers who are interested in wider trends in the human capital marketplace.

CTO of Workshape.io here. We were very keen on providing insightful data back to the community. As we collect more data this resource will be updated - we hope it will be of increasing interest as more engineers use our service. We will also be releasing this form of infographic for other shapes drawn by people who labelled themselves with a different title e.g. Front End Engineer, or DevOps Developer. If anyone has any suggestions of information we could display then please let us know!

It's interesting that UI/UX scores so poorly.

I think part of the reason for this is that UI libraries and coding frameworks are generally horrible to deal with. It sort of amazes me that given the importance of UI so little effort has been put into developing really good programming patterns and paradigms for it vs. backend stuff, devops, etc.

Hey man (how's it going btw??)

Yeah it was interesting to pull that out. However, it could be the people who self identify as 'Software Engineers' might think of themselves as stopping a the blurry line where front-end ends and design / UX begins.

We're going to explain methodology more in a blog post coming out on Tuesday - keep an eye on http://blog.workshape.io/

So software engineers write backend services in python and architect javascript code bases :). Good to know.

Very interesting article

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