Most cities around the world look like New York, with proportionally more traffic during the week and less during the weekends more people commute into cities during the week and stay outside of cities on the weekends. Notice the difference in weekly traffic patterns between New York and Las Vegas, keeping in mind that these are showing proportion of US traffic. I would conclude that there is more hands-on coding happening at DEF CON than Black Hat. We don’t see much proportional increase in traffic because of Black Hat, which took place from August 4 to August 9, and is also a large conference.I wasn’t sure, given the security-minded nature of DEF CON attendees, if this would be the case or not! There are a lot of people involved in DEF CON that didn’t use VPNs to proxy their location when visiting Stack Overflow.See that big spike for Las Vegas on August 9 – 11? There is about a 50% increase in the traffic we see from Las Vegas during the days of DEF CON (at least its first three days), in terms of proportion of US traffic or raw sessions (not shown here). Well, that is pretty clear, if you ask me.
The scales on the y-axis are different so that we can see weekly variation in both cities. What did traffic from Las Vegas look like during the month of August? Let’s look at Stack Overflow traffic as a proportion of US question views as a whole, and also look at another city for comparison. Last year, DEF CON took place from August 9 to August 12. Can we see any differences in traffic to Stack Overflow during the days of DEF CON? What can we learn about the hacker community from traffic during that time? Well over 25,000 people attended DEF CON in 2018, all located in Las Vegas.
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Not everyone who identifies as a hacker or is part of hacker culture writes code or uses Stack Overflow, but we would expect a significant proportion to do so. Some also attend Black Hat, a related conference which is typically scheduled right before DEF CON, also in Las Vegas. Each year, thousands of people interested in security (and/or the hacking thereof) travel to Las Vegas to learn and gather with like-minded community. Today is the first day of DEF CON 27, arguably the world’s best known hacker convention.
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