About our participants

We had 340 participants who fit our criteria and answered our survey. These included 91 staff members, 81 students, 69 faculty, 41 postdocs, and 24 who selected “Other”.

We had a wide array of disciplines represented in our participant pool as well:

(#tab:get_disc)Disciplines of IASGE Survey Participants
Disciplines Count
Agricultural & Horticultural 1
Agricultural Sciences 2
Agronomy & Crop Science 1
Ancient Studies 2
Applied Mathematics 4
Aquatic Biology-Limnology 1
Archeology 4
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics 1
Astronomy 6
Astrophysics 7
Bioinformatics 21
Biology-Biological Sciences 8
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics 1
Biomedical Sciences 2
Biophysics 1
Biophysics & Molecular Biology 1
Biostatistics 2
Botany-Plant Biology 1
Cellular & Molecular Biology 1
Chemical Physics 1
Clinical Psychology 2
Cognitive Psychology 3
Communication Disorders 1
Community Health & Preventive Medicine 1
Community Organization & Advocacy 1
Comparative Literature 1
Computer & Information Sciences 16
Computer Programming 4
Computer Science 26
Data Modeling-Warehousing & Database Administration 1
Data Processing 2
Design & Visual Communications 1
Earth atmospheric & ocean sciences 2
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 14
Education 1
Electrical & Electronic Engineering 1
Elementary Particle Physics 6
Energy Management & Systems 1
Engineering 2
Engineering Physics 1
Environmental Biology 1
Environmental Science 3
Epidemiology 2
Evolutionary Biology 1
Fishing & Fisheries Sciences 3
Genetics 3
Geography 1
Government & Politics 1
History 8
Humanities-Humanistic Studies 2
Hydrology & Water Resources 1
Industrial & Organizational Psychology 1
Information Science 14
Jewish-Judaic Studies 1
Kinesiology & Exercise Science 1
Library Science 40
Linguistics 2
Literature 1
Management Information Systems 2
Mathematics 1
Mathematics & Computer Science 2
Mechanical Engineering 3
Medical Informatics 1
Medicinal & Pharmaceutical Chemistry 1
Multi-Interdisciplinary Studies 1
Musicology & Ethnomusicology 2
Natural Products Chemistry & Pharmacognosy 1
Neuropharmacology 1
Neuroscience 10
Numeracy & Computational Skills 1
Oceanography Chemical & Physical 1
Other 8
Pharmacy 1
Physics 13
Psychology 1
Public Health 1
Public Policy Analysis 1
Public-Applied History & Archival Administration 1
Sociology 3
Soil Science & Agronomy 1
Solid State & Low-Temperature Physics 1
Statistics 6
Systematic Biology 1

Status & Discipline

When did they start using VCS?

year_started_vcs <- dplyr::filter(output[0:2], first_vcs != "")
year_started_vcs <- year_started_vcs %>%  
  mutate(year_vcs = replace(year_vcs, year_vcs == "1994 or earlier", "<= 1994"))

year_plot <- ggplot(year_started_vcs, aes(x=year_vcs, group=first_vcs, color=first_vcs)) + 
  theme_bw() + 
  geom_line(stat = "count") + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(vjust=0.90))  + 
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(vjust=0.5, angle=60)) +
  labs(title="", x="Year began using VCS", y="Count of Participants") +
  theme(legend.justification = "top", text=element_text(family="serif", face="bold")) + 
  scale_color_discrete(name = "VCS") + 
  theme(legend.key.size = unit(0.3, 'cm'),
        legend.key.height = unit(0.3, 'cm'),
        legend.key.width = unit(0.3, 'cm'),
        legend.title = element_text(size=10),
        legend.text = element_text(size=10)) +
  annotate("linerange", x = 11, ymin = 0, ymax = 19) +
  annotate("text", x = 11, y = 20, label="Git released", family="serif")

year_plot

ggsave("results/year_started.png", dpi = 300)
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Current vs. First VCS

first_current <- data.frame(na.omit(output[c(2, 4)]))