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Re:The Hacker Survey by tialys on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @10:11PM (#786383)
I was not aware you could do that! Here's the link!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewanalytics?formkey=dEhmQ0J....

Re:The Hacker Survey by 10ren on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @11:22PM (#786484)
That's really cool, thanks.

It would be cool if Google had an option for strictly numeric fields, and then auto-calc averages and distribution graphs etc. Without that restriction input, there is a curation problem, e.g. ages "19-30".

But google doesn't make any money from this, so it's hard for them to iterate as quickly as (e.g.) one of us could. I guess the deeper problem is: is there a revenue model for simple survey generation?

There's Wufoo http://wufoo.com/gallery/templates/surveys/business-demograp... (a YCer, no less). I'm sure they'd do a better job, but they won't let you get started without signing up. Google's little form tool is disrupting these guys, albeit at the very low end.

Re:The Hacker Survey by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @02:12AM (#786664)
Cool that we have some results, but the display of the age and wage values seems simply to be a list. Is that normal? Having read another response, I guess it is.

I assume you'll be doing your own analysis as well and will deal with the problem in the summary you post.

And I'm finding this interesting - thanks.

Re:The Hacker Survey by nico on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @11:38PM (#786503)
Wow, are there actually females reading HN?
Re:The Hacker Survey by concretecode on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @02:36AM (#786702)
OK. You've gotten that out of your system.

Now go read this: http://xkcd.com/322/ and go back to Reddit.