I’m only able to view the archive version, but assuming the main site matches it, this is a very poor page. There is no normalization of the data (-1 and 3000 are given as answers to “How many years have you been using Emacs for?”), the bars give a relative size but no absolute numbers for the answers (how many people said “No” to “Do you use an Email client in Emacs?”? Good question! I guess you have to download the raw data to find out.), and questions like “Can you recall any difficulties you faced when initially learning Emacs?” are presented as a bar chart, which is just completely useless.
Seriously, as someone who answered the survey and is interested, this is borderline insulting. Is having the raw data useful? Sure, and it’s appreciated. What would be much more appreciated is the people running the survey doing an actual analysis instead of leaving it to everyone to do for themselves.
What would be much more appreciated is the people running the survey doing an actual analysis
I haven’t really watched it (and a portion of it seems to be about the technical challenges), but that happened at EmacsConf. It would be really good if that link/video was on the survey site.
Not sure whether to be impressed or exasperated by the person who responded to every question with “i use vim”. Probably the latter; the novelty wears off quickly.
I’m only able to view the archive version, but assuming the main site matches it, this is a very poor page. There is no normalization of the data (-1 and 3000 are given as answers to “How many years have you been using Emacs for?”), the bars give a relative size but no absolute numbers for the answers (how many people said “No” to “Do you use an Email client in Emacs?”? Good question! I guess you have to download the raw data to find out.), and questions like “Can you recall any difficulties you faced when initially learning Emacs?” are presented as a bar chart, which is just completely useless.
Seriously, as someone who answered the survey and is interested, this is borderline insulting. Is having the raw data useful? Sure, and it’s appreciated. What would be much more appreciated is the people running the survey doing an actual analysis instead of leaving it to everyone to do for themselves.
I haven’t really watched it (and a portion of it seems to be about the technical challenges), but that happened at EmacsConf. It would be really good if that link/video was on the survey site.
Not sure whether to be impressed or exasperated by the person who responded to every question with “i use vim”. Probably the latter; the novelty wears off quickly.
It seems this website is down…
It is overloaded, I think. Archive entry at https://web.archive.org/web/20221218110505/https://emacssurvey.org/results/3425413930