Summarizing Our Instructors' Skills

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We've been asking bootcamp participants to tell us about themselves for a while now, so it seems only fair to share some information about our instructors. First, of the 82 instructors who responded to our survey two weeks ago, how many are comfortable teaching which topic to novices, to intermediates, or not at all?

	Not At All	Novices	Intermediates
Python	4	27	51
...NumPy/SciPy	16	34	32
...Packaging	44	20	18
...OOP	16	31	35
...Data Visualization	18	37	27
...Testing	16	40	26
R	50	18	14
...Data Visualization	54	13	15
...plyr	66	8	8
...Packaging	68	6	8
Unix Shell	1	23	58
Git/GitHub	4	32	46
Mercurial	57	13	12
Subversion	39	22	21
SQL	34	26	22
Regular Expressions	16	37	29
Make	32	27	23

Thanks to Jenny Bryan, we have a ranked visualization of those responses:

Instructor Skills

Second, who feels comfortable setting up on which platforms? (The responses don't sum to 82 because many people selected several options.)

Linux	71
Mac OS X	61
Windows	42
Desktop VMs	33
Cloud VMs	21

And finally, where are people from?

North America	60
Europe	13
Australia/New Zealand	6
Sub-Saharan Africa	1
East Asia	1
South America	1

We have information about instructors' research areas as well, but it's hard to categorize. Once we've recovered from running our biggest events ever, we'll dig into it a little more and share what we find; until then, you can download the raw data and tell us what correlations you can find.