# RGSoC 2016: Visual Forum Analytics Community Discussion

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rgsoc-2016-visual-forum-analytics-community-discussion/46905
**Category:** Data & reporting
**Created:** [7월 6, 2016, 3:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rgsoc-2016-visual-forum-analytics-community-discussion/46905 "2016-07-06T15:50:32Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [7월 11, 2016, 2:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rgsoc-2016-visual-forum-analytics-community-discussion/46905/9 "2016-07-11T14:51:44Z")

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> [@eviltrout](#):
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> 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?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-quantify-the-success-of-your-community/40229):
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> 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 [@(Superseded) What cool data explorer queries have you come up with?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-cool-data-explorer-queries-have-you-come-up-with/43516):
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> 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) query, or have one to share, please start a new topic in the #Data & reporting category and tag it with the #sql-query tag. +1information_source For an alternative searchable list of queries that were in this topic, see @SidV’s [query list on GitHub](https://github.com/SidVal/discourse-data-explorer/blob/queries/querys.md).

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