Hacker News Who's Hiring Trends

Inspired by a previous post on the locations of the July "Who is hiring" thread on Hacker News, I wrote a script to pull down all the who's hiring threads and display trends of requested languages, frameworks, data management, and mobile operations [1,2,3].

Let me know if you see any languages, frameworks, data, etc missing, and I'll try to post an update soon. 

Language Requests Over Time - larger graph

 

Framework Requests Over Time - larger graph

 

Data Management Requests Over Time - larger graph

 

Mobile Requests Over Time - larger graph

 

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Notes

[1] You can find the code used to download and parse the data on GitHub (the raw data is also here too). To embed the graphs I'm using Google Fusion Tables.

[2] I only used the highest voted thread per month and excluded the remote, language, career, intern/student, or otherwise more specific threads. Additionally, there are a few months I wasn't able to track down. If you happen to run across them, I'll include them here. The threads were a bit of trouble to track down, so I'm going to list them here for future reference:

[3] The request frequency on the y-axis was calculated by finding the number of occurences within all the comments on a Who's Hiring page (ex: some comments many mention Ruby twice and that is counted two times). Additionally, Some terms were merged to correspond to common usage:

  • javascript & js
  • node & node.js
  • mongo & mongodb
  • objective-c & obj-c
  • postgres & postgresql

Please let me know if you see any I missed.

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the graphs are incomprehensible, can you present a higher resolution or less data
— lkjh
@lkjh - Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to post simplified graphs in a few hours.
— Nathan Hurst
Posting a csv or Excel file for download would be great too
— bpiel
@bpiel - https://github.com/nahurst/hn_jobs/blob/master/hn_data.csv (I'll likely update it this afternoon though to merge a few more terms)

@lkjh - beside each graph heading, I posted a link to a higher res graph.

— Nathan Hurst
It would be great if the keys were sorted by the average value of their respective series.
— John
Something seems fishy enough in the March 2011 numbers for me to think it's a bug
— etrain
@John - good point. I'll try to do that in an update soon.

@etrain - The March thread had significantly fewer comments for some reason http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270790 and I think that's what's causing the drop off.

— Nathan Hurst
Clicking on the legend boxes should hilte the appropriate line.. otherwise, impossible to correlate.
— MeBigFatGuy
Framework data - missing Yii
— Steve
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