Data

This repository holds the prepared data set of responses to the HIFIS Survey 2021.
Data preparation included the following steps after manual screening of free text responses:

• Responses of 8 participants were excluded from subset of software development related question: 100, 324, 266, 75, 442, 566, 506, 572
• Responses of 4 participants were excluded from data set due to inconsistent responses: 241, 449, 349, 501
• New categories were added:
  • Q010_SQ009: IT problems / network problems / remote access problems,
  • Q010_SQ010: Operation / maintenance of software services
• New categories were added:
  • Q011_SQ010: Characteristic-based,
  • Q011_SQ011: Collaboration tools / sync and share,
  • Q011_SQ012: Communication tools / conferencing
• New categories were added:
  • Q013_SQ010: Public authorities (national/international),
  • Q013_SQ011: Research institutes/networks
• New categories were added:
  • Q014_SQ010: Ability to be self hosted and interoperability,
  • Q014_SQ011: Information security,
  • Q014_SQ012: Usability/user friendliness`
• New categories were added:
  • Q021_SQ038: Fortran,
  • Q021_SQ039: Labview,
  • Q021_SQ040: Mathematica,
  • Q021_SQ041: VHDL
• New categories were added:
  • Q023_SQ002: C++,
  • Q023_SQ003: Go,
  • Q023_SQ004: Haskell,
  • Q023_SQ005: Java,
  • Q023_SQ006: Julia,
  • Q023_SQ007: Python,
  • Q023_SQ008: R,
  • Q023_SQ009: Rust
• New categories were added:
  • Q024_SQ007: Hands-on experience
• New categories were added:
  • Q030/SQ001comment/A001: Not relevant,
  • Q030/SQ001comment/A002: Other priorities,
  • Q030/SQ001comment/A003: Lack of time,
  • Q030/SQ001comment/A004: Topic or level,
  • Q030/SQ001comment/A005: Other networks,
  • Q030/SQ001comment/A006: Other
  • Q030/SQ003comment/A001: Software Engineering Workshop,
  • Q030/SQ003comment/A002: Hacky Hour,
  • Q030/SQ003comment/A003: GEOMAR Hacky Hour,
  • Q030/SQ003comment/A004: WAW,
  • Q030/SQ003comment/A005: Other
  • Q030/SQ004comment/A001: Software Engineering Workshop (HIFIS),
  • Q030/SQ004comment/A002: Software Engineering Workshop,
  • Q030/SQ004comment/A003: External Workshop,
  • Q030/SQ004comment/A004: In-house knowledge exchange,
  • Q030/SQ004comment/A005: WAW,
  • Q030/SQ004comment/A006: Other
• New categories were added:
  • Q043_SQ012: Automation,
  • Q043_SQ013: Data handling software,
  • Q043_SQ014: Data management software
• Raw free text responses were removed after categorization

Details can be found in the data preparation script or the corresponding issue.
For a description of the full survey, please have a look at the meta data.