This data set comes from StackOverflow's 2017 developer survey, a yearly survey of developers who visit the site. There are a number of questions in data/survey_results_schema.csv, as well as the column names they map to in data/survey_results_public.csv.
A full mapping of the questions, as users saw them, and methods can be found in data/DeveloperSurvey2017QuestionaireCleaned.pdf. Please note that the phrasing of the questions in this file can sometimes differ from the phrasing in data/survey_results_schema.csv.
What insights can we gleam from this data? There are many interesting fields, from people's roles, job satisfaction, professional and personal interests, demographics, and a number of others. The notebook developer_insights.Rmd contains a few interesting analyses to get you started. What other interetsting questions can you answer from this data?
Can you predict if a developer is a Data Scientist? Your goal is to build a classifier to predict whether a developer is involved in the growing field of Data Science, using the answers they provide in the survey. Developer classifications are stored in the DeveloperType column. Be careful, as some questions may contain fields with target leakage that should not be used! You may also wish to use the existing features to engineer new features.