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Summary Analysis of the 2017 GitHub Open Source Survey

Computers and Society 2017-06-14 v1 Software Engineering Social and Information Networks
Authors: R. Stuart Geiger
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Abstract

This report is a high-level summary analysis of the 2017 GitHub Open Source Survey dataset, presenting frequency counts, proportions, and frequency or proportion bar plots for every question asked in the survey.

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@article{arxiv.1706.02777,
  title  = {Summary Analysis of the 2017 GitHub Open Source Survey},
  author = {R. Stuart Geiger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02777},
  year   = {2017}
}

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