Cleaning up raw data pulled from a Hacker News salary survey conducted on 3/21/16. Latest clean version of the data is available here.
- US and Canadian states
- Countries
- Zip Codes
- Counties
- Google provided currency conversion rates
- No responses were removed for trolling. Luckily, imposing sane limits on some fields eliminated a lot of them.
- Currency conversion is hard when no one indicates the currency being used. Right now, rows indicating a currency type other than USD are converted to USD and everything else is assumed to be USD. Salary analysis internationally is sketchy at best.