A very quick and dirty stab at visualising OSMF 2021 survey results

Posted by Øukasz on 8 March 2021 in English. Last updated on 9 March 2021.

I have just read in the OSM weekly that Michal has published analysis of the OSMF 2021 survey. I thank him, and others in the OSM community for the time and work spent on this.

Re-visualising the responses

One thing that drew my attention, is the visualisation of the 5 “sentiment” questions from the survey. The questions had Likert-style response options, where the respondents could either disagree or agree with the statement. There was also a neutral option in the middle. Such data are better visualised using a diverging colour palette. Since Michal kindly released all the files through github, I could recreate the maps using what is, in my opinion, a more suitable visualisation.

1: Code Of Conduct

2: Fundraising

3: Software Investments

4: iD Editor

5: Microgrants

Relative agreement

I also attempted to compare the relative agreement with each of the actions/sentiments. I did it based on the microdata. I simply added up the response averages for each of the questions. As a result, the actions/sentiments with which the respondents seem to agree, from most to least, are:

Software Investments
Fundraising
iD Editor
Microgrants
Code Of Conduct

Discussion

Comment from migurski on 8 March 2021 at 19:12

This is great, Øukasz! The hot-linked images don’t show in my browser (Mac Safari) so I mirrored them here in case you’d like to edit:

Comment from highflyer74 on 8 March 2021 at 21:13

@Øukasz: images showing fine here (Linux, Firefox 86).

Comment from Øukasz on 9 March 2021 at 09:47

Thanks both, I’ll test it again with Safari later today and replace the images if needed.

Comment from Øukasz on 9 March 2021 at 15:10

Confirmed it doesn’t work on Safari. Michal - I did relink to the images hosted by you, thanks for this! Can you confirm if they appear fine on your end now?

Comment from migurski on 9 March 2021 at 16:56

Looks great!