Nuria, thanks for the feedback – for context, the reason why I am asking is that:
• I was under the impression that this data was already being stored somewhere in temporary tables by Wikimetrics when generating project-level reports • this is quite similar to one of the earliest feature requests that we had for UserMetrics (the predecessor of Wikimetrics) under the notion of “generated cohorts”: 1) take the non-aggregate output of a report (say all registered users or new active editors from foowiki in a given time period) 2) save the output as a cohort 3) re-run that cohort through a different metric Using Quarry still relies on the end user’s ability to understand how to turn a research question into a query. Having a curated query library is a good step in that direction, but that still requires some basic knowledge of SQL. D On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Dario: > > There are no technical blockers to be able to generate that data. Now, > product wise it does not seem like a fit as wikimetrics' purpose is to > produce data and run metrics. All wikimetrics computations are pre-canned. > > It seems to me the use cases you passed along are better fitted by a tool > being able to freely query the db like quarry. > > Thanks, > > Nuria > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Dario Taraborelli > <[email protected]> wrote: > Abbey asked a question during today’s research group that I wanted to relay > to the wikimetrics devs. > > Would it be possible to allow people to use Wikimetrics’ project-level > reports to generate cohorts, in other words, obtain lists of user_ids or > user_names matching specific criteria, for example: > > • registered users on a given date or period > • newly active editors on a given date > • unique editors on a given date or period > > UX research as well as LCA would die to have such a functionality (the > fallback is to do this via Quarry or post a request to Research & Data or > someone in Grantmaking). > > Dario > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimetrics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimetrics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimetrics
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