What happened to all the non-programmers?
As I looked around and realized for the hundredth time that I was surrounded by people exactly like me, something inside me snapped. I downloaded the latest American Community Survey microdata, fired up R and started calculating feverishly.
This week I found myself at yet another dinner party that mysteriously contained only two people who were not involved with the tech industry in some way. As I looked around and realized for the hundredth time that I was surrounded by people exactly like me, something inside me snapped. I downloaded the latest American Community Survey microdata , fired up R and started calculating feverishly. It turns out that among people who are under 35 live in San Francisco, Berkeley or Oakland and have at least a bachelor's degree about 10% have a computer-related occupation. An additional 5% are employe
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