thanks Dan, this is awesome – I’ll give it a try this morning with some of the recent mobile cohorts.
On Nov 21, 2013, at 7:39 AM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wikimetrics users, > > I've just deployed asynchronous cohort upload. This is feature #818: > https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/analytics/cards/818 and basically > allows you to upload larger cohorts because validation is happening behind > the scenes. I'll go over how the new functionality works here, and will rely > on one of you to point me to the appropriate on-wiki place to update > documentation. > > So basically, visiting /cohorts and clicking "Upload Cohort" works as before. > But once you click "Upload CSV", your form is validated, processed, and > you're taken back to the cohorts page. Your new cohort is immediately > created but is not yet validated. While it validates, you'll see the > validation status and have a few options: > > * Remove Cohort. This is destructive and will remove this cohort from your > list. Use this in case you made a mistake, uploaded the wrong file, etc. > * Validate Again. This will run validation again. One possible use for it > is, let's say you upload a cohort with some *very* newly registered users. > And because of replication lag to the labsdb databases, most of them come up > invalid. You can then run validation again. > * Refresh. This just refreshes the status of the validation and will update > the counts that show up below. > > You will not have the "Create Report" option until validation is done. And > when you do create a report, only valid users will be considered and used in > the output. > > One caveat. Validation is still slow. And the time limit for the > asynchronous task is set to 1 hour. I have some ideas for making this faster > by batching, and I can increase the time limit per task (but that has other > repercussions). For now, just keep in mind that the theoretical maximum > cohort size you should upload is roughly 18,000 users. I would love some > feedback about whether it's ok to increase the time limit or if people want > me to focus on making validation faster. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Wikimetrics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics
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