RGSoC 2016: Visual Forum Analytics Community Discussion

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

@eviltrout

One thing to keep in mind is the team is learning A LOT over this process, and so it’s important to start small and build on it from there.

When deciding which things to add first, I think it’d be healthy to frame the question in these terms:

How to quantify the success of your community?

Following a discussion about books on community building I saw this tip and read part of the book. This book seems to put a strong emphasis on data and its analyses as a means of quantifying the success of your community. Quote from the book: The number of unseen problems is HUGE! When the number of new visitors to the platform dips, that’s an unseen problem. When a number of regulars vanish, that’s an unseen problem. When the volunteers begin slipping away, that’s an unseen problem. When t…

Along those lines, one feature to consider adding is a tooltip or explanation that attempts to give some guidance about what a given metric might mean under what scenarios it might be expected to be misleading.

There may be some hints about what kind of data is “missing” in this topic too:

(Superseded) What cool data explorer queries have you come up with?

This topic became too long to be easily searched and has been broken down into separate topics. If you have any questions about how to write a Data Explorer query, or have one to share, please start a new topic in the data & reporting category and tag it with the sql-query tag. For an alternative searchable list of queries that were in this topic, see @SidV’s query list on GitHub.