+1 I'm a fan of bada-bing.  But not sure about how it fits in the bigger
picture

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Dario Taraborelli <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I don't think it does, actually. Can't we just create a canned Quarry
> query that generates a list of all accounts created in the past 24 hours in
> an output format that is Wikimetrics-ready, and then direct people to the
> persistent URL? User pastes that verbatim into their own "New query" box,
> and download the resulting data. Bada-bing!
>
> - J
>
>
>
>
>> 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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