I added the story to the backlog so we don't lose it:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71614

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:

> >I was under the impression that this data was already being stored
> somewhere in temporary tables by Wikimetrics when generating project-level
> reports
> The data is not being stored anywhere at this time, we just query a table
> for users that match a criteria.
>
> >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
>
> I see. At this time in wikimetrics we have no way to store & reuse
> intermediate results of metrics in other metrics. Which, if you notice, is
> a performance concern as we recompute stuff. We have talked about doing
> this in the past (we called it chaining metrics) and we have some backlog
> items to this extent. You can talk to kevin about this use case (which is
> slightly different than the original one you described) and he can add it
> to the backlog.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Dario Taraborelli <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
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