As per the IRC discussion, we won't recompute historical data, but start
computing new values from the deploy time onward.
A new "version" field, and associated documentation will also be provided,
allowing to follow changes along time.
Thanks for your inputs !
Best


On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think it should be fine-ish; it depends what we're calculating. When
> you say "geocoded information", what do you mean? Country? City? I
> wouldn't expect country to move about a lot in 60 days (which is the
> range of our data): I would expect city to.
>
> What's the status on getting an oozie job or similar to compute going
> forward? To me that's more of a priority than historical data.
>
> On 23 February 2015 at 10:53, Joseph Allemandou
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As part of my first assignment, I'll recompute our historical webrequest
> > dataset, adding client_ip and geocoded information.
> >
> > While it seems correct to compute historical client_ip based on the
> existing
> > ip and the x_forwarded_for, the use of the current state of the geocoded
> > maxmind library to compute historical data is more error-prone.
> >
> > I can either compute it anyway, knowing that there'll be some errors, or
> put
> > null values for data older than a given point in time.
> >
> > I'll launch the script to recompute the data as soon as max(a consensus
> is
> > find on this matter, operations gives me the right to run the script) :)
> >
> > Thanks
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> > Joseph Allemandou
> > Data Engineer @ Wikimedia Foundation
> > IRC: joal
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