Weekly Viz 2025-06-30
StackOverflow New Questions 2008-2024
I realized it has been a long time since I visited StackOverflow last time. ChatGPT has been my best coding instructor. Therefore, this week I looked into how StackOverflow has been impacted by the development of AI. This dataset on GitHub shows the number of new questions created on StackOverflow every month.
My Visualization
This visualization has two parts – on the top it has a bar chart with the number of new questions every month; on the bottom, it shows the QoQ % change.
Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.
Insights
- StackOverflow saw the highest growth from 2008 to 2014, reaching the peak of 500k new questions each quarter;
- After peaking, the volume stablized and then began a gradual decline between 2015 and 2022;
- Since the launch of ChatGPT in Nov 2022, we saw a sharp decline in new questions, from close to ~300k per quarter to only <100k per quarter now.
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