Hi Burton, nicely done (and yay for using dygraphs) – with what frequenty do you expect wikipediatrends to ingest new data from the raw pageview dumps? I assume it’s once a month?
Dario On Mar 25, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Alex Druk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Burton, > > We just opened a new site www.wikipediatrends.com that show Wikipedia page > view data. Our site is very similar to existing > http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/ and http://stats.grok.se/, but use > slightly different approach to calculating and presenting data as well as > allow comparison of different articles. > > I hope it will serve your purpose. I am ready to discuss integration out of > the list. > > Alex Druk > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Burton DeWilde > <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Toby, > > I recently saw your comment on a blog post by Magnus Manske regarding the > lack of Wikipedia page view data besides the oft-overloaded > http://stats.grok.se/. I was wondering if there's been any progress at WMF on > building a more stable, central, and complete source for this data? > > I ask because I'm a data scientist at a small research non-profit called > Harmony Institute, where we study the social impact of media (primarily > television and film). I'm currently building an interactive web app that > visualizes social impact on a variety of issues by many documentary films. > One indicator of interest is "information-seeking behavior," i.e. are > audiences seeking out information about a film or issue. Besides Google > search trends, an excellent proxy for this is Wikipedia page views for both > film pages, e.g. Escape Fire, and issue-related pages, e.g. Health care > reform. > > I'm currently trying to use stats.grok.se to grab raw data in JSON form; > unfortunately, the site almost always responds with "Server overloaded, > please throttle your requests," and no amount of throttling seems to suffice. > I'm aware that there are many TBs of raw data for the downloading, but I > don't have the resources to handle that much data, nor do I need more than > the tiniest fraction of it. > > I would love to show Wikipedia page view statistics for film pages in our > app. If you have any updates on progress or suggestions on how I might do > this, I would be very appreciative. > > Thanks very much for your and all of WMF's hard work — I'm a proud donor to > the cause. :) > > Best, > Burton DeWilde > > -- > Burton DeWilde > > Data Scientist > Harmony Institute > harmony-institute.org > blog | twitter | facebook > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > > -- > Thank you. > > Alex Druk > [email protected] > (775) 237-8550 Google voice > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
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