GFischer on Ask HN: Hacker News Demographics

There were some polls over the years, for example age:

And a comment has links to older polls

Same for Operating System:

gender

and region

googling for:

poll [xyz] site:news.ycombinator.com

will get you most of the results you want :)

I hope you can extract and share some interesting data from there :)

Some visualizations for these polls:

Age (bar):

Region (bar):

Primary OS (latest), pie:

Build your own:

Thanks egor :) . The pie chart with everything in shades of blue is a bit confusing, but bar charts do make things much clearer to visualize.

And thanks for feedback!

I updated the coloring a bit:

Much nicer now ! Thanks.

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