<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><strong style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">"Software development time estimates. </strong><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Derek M. Jones </span><a href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/data-is-plural/data-is-plural-2019-04-24-edition/14233366-github.com/derek-jones/eseur-code-data?c=b52636bc-cb2b-4f8c-a7dd-a9ca89484e10" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(52,102,204);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">analyzes software-engineering data</a><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">. Recently, he convinced a small software company to release a </span><a href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/data-is-plural/data-is-plural-2019-04-24-edition/14233370-github.com/derek-jones/sip_dataset?c=b52636bc-cb2b-4f8c-a7dd-a9ca89484e10" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(52,102,204);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">dataset documenting its internal time estimates</a><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">, spanning 10 years, 20 projects, and 10,000+ tasks. For each task, the dataset indicates the number of hours it was predicted to take, how long it actually took, the (anonymized) developers it was assigned to, and more. [h/t </span><a href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/data-is-plural/data-is-plural-2019-04-24-edition/14233374-erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html?c=b52636bc-cb2b-4f8c-a7dd-a9ca89484e10" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(52,102,204);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Erik Bern</a> and <span style="background-color:rgb(252,252,252);color:rgb(48,48,48);text-align:center"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://twitter.com/jsvine">Jeremy Singer-Vine</a></font></span>] " </div><div>============================================<br>Tom Johnson - <a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a><br>Institute for Analytic Journalism   --     Santa Fe, NM USA<br>505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)<br><a href="http://nmfog.org" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0b5394">NM Foundation for Open Government</font></b></a><br><b><font color="#0000ff">Check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671" target="_blank">It's The People's Data</a></font></b>                 </div><div>============================================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>