Re: [CODE4LIB] Online statistics gathering tool

[Fitchett, Deborah]

Thank you, I'll have a look and poke at it!

Deborah

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Orphanides
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Online statistics gathering tool

SUMA is about 80% of the way to what you describe. I don't know if it 
integrates with external data systems, but you can set up your own initiatives, 
it's web based, it's open source, and I'm pretty sure it's built on some PHP 
platform or another. If I recall there are also some clever one-click type of 
deployment packages available.

http://cazzerson.github.io/Suma/

Full disclosure: Jason Casden works upstairs from me and is The Man.


On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Fitchett, Deborah < 
deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a web-based tool that would allow users to easily 
> enter statistics (eg desk/consultations stats) as the day progresses; 
> and which then makes the stored stats available in a variety of ways. 
> Reports, pretty graphs, downloadable csvs; the one I personally really 
> care about would be a REST API.
>
> My ideal tool would also:
>
>   *   be able to auto-populate with data from other systems, eg pull in
> user data from Alma's API (or from a PeopleSoft export) so you could 
> track what consultations/workshops users attend. (We currently do this 
> in a convoluted Access database but I don't have my beloved REST API for 
> that.)
>   *   you'd create your own modules eg one for desk stats, one for
> consultations, one for head-counts, ... each one providing a different 
> form for your staff to (quickly and easily) enter details.
>   *   be free open source software based on PHP/SQL and super-easy to
> install on our own servers (ie the fewer extra libraries that need 
> installing the better. I’m thinking: download, unzip, edit the config 
> file, done. :-)  )
>
> I'm half-tempted to code one myself but that'd be a Project. But our 
> current stats gathering is... scattered.
>
> Does anyone know of anything in this area?
>
> Nāku noa, nā
>
> Deborah Fitchett
> Senior Advisor, Digital Access
> Library, Teaching and Learning
>
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Online statistics gathering tool

[Andreas Orphanides]

SUMA is about 80% of the way to what you describe. I don't know if it
integrates with external data systems, but you can set up your own
initiatives, it's web based, it's open source, and I'm pretty sure it's
built on some PHP platform or another. If I recall there are also some
clever one-click type of deployment packages available.

http://cazzerson.github.io/Suma/

Full disclosure: Jason Casden works upstairs from me and is The Man.


On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Fitchett, Deborah <
deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a web-based tool that would allow users to easily enter
> statistics (eg desk/consultations stats) as the day progresses; and which
> then makes the stored stats available in a variety of ways. Reports, pretty
> graphs, downloadable csvs; the one I personally really care about would be
> a REST API.
>
> My ideal tool would also:
>
>   *   be able to auto-populate with data from other systems, eg pull in
> user data from Alma's API (or from a PeopleSoft export) so you could track
> what consultations/workshops users attend. (We currently do this in a
> convoluted Access database but I don't have my beloved REST API for that.)
>   *   you'd create your own modules eg one for desk stats, one for
> consultations, one for head-counts, ... each one providing a different form
> for your staff to (quickly and easily) enter details.
>   *   be free open source software based on PHP/SQL and super-easy to
> install on our own servers (ie the fewer extra libraries that need
> installing the better. I’m thinking: download, unzip, edit the config file,
> done. :-)  )
>
> I'm half-tempted to code one myself but that'd be a Project. But our
> current stats gathering is... scattered.
>
> Does anyone know of anything in this area?
>
> Nāku noa, nā
>
> Deborah Fitchett
> Senior Advisor, Digital Access
> Library, Teaching and Learning
>
> p +64 3 423 0358
> e deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz |
> w library.lincoln.ac.nz
>
> Lincoln University, Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki
> New Zealand's specialist land-based university
>
>
> 
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[CODE4LIB] Online statistics gathering tool

[Fitchett, Deborah]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a web-based tool that would allow users to easily enter 
statistics (eg desk/consultations stats) as the day progresses; and which then 
makes the stored stats available in a variety of ways. Reports, pretty graphs, 
downloadable csvs; the one I personally really care about would be a REST API.

My ideal tool would also:

  *   be able to auto-populate with data from other systems, eg pull in user 
data from Alma's API (or from a PeopleSoft export) so you could track what 
consultations/workshops users attend. (We currently do this in a convoluted 
Access database but I don't have my beloved REST API for that.)
  *   you'd create your own modules eg one for desk stats, one for 
consultations, one for head-counts, ... each one providing a different form for 
your staff to (quickly and easily) enter details.
  *   be free open source software based on PHP/SQL and super-easy to install 
on our own servers (ie the fewer extra libraries that need installing the 
better. I’m thinking: download, unzip, edit the config file, done. :-)  )

I'm half-tempted to code one myself but that'd be a Project. But our current 
stats gathering is... scattered.

Does anyone know of anything in this area?

Nāku noa, nā

Deborah Fitchett
Senior Advisor, Digital Access
Library, Teaching and Learning

p +64 3 423 0358
e deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz | w 
library.lincoln.ac.nz

Lincoln University, Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki
New Zealand's specialist land-based university



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