[Qgis-psc] First sample outputs of telemtry work
Jonathan Moules
jonathan-lists at lightpear.com
Tue May 10 13:03:56 PDT 2022
Hi Tim,
This looks good; I love a good dashboard. Some thoughts & bugs:
* Do we have telemetry for QGIS Server?
* The numbers on "*QGIS Open events on Windows per day - last yea**r*"
seem far too low. "*QGIS Daily Opens - last 30 days*" is showing half a
million users a day but for windows is just ~50k a day, this despite
windows clearly being 90+% of users per the platform chart (well, one of
those platform charts...).
* Alternately, the pie-chart next to it: "*QGIS Daily Opens by Platform
- last 30 days*" is showing 86% as being "other" platforms where
"others" on the chart to the left of it for what appears to be trying to
show the same thing is only a tiny percentage (< 6%?).
* "*QGIS Daily Opens by Version - last 30 days*" - is showing some of
the version numbers as integers and some as floats.
* "*QGIS Top Movers - Yesterday*" - If I sum these up I get about
100,000. Given the total number of users yesterday per the day-chart was
only about 25k higher than a Monday average, I get the feeling this is
averaging across all-time, meaning weekends will always show a low
number and weekdays will always show a high number (as today). I'd
suggest it should probably use the average for that-day, so it's
comparing like-for-like.
* "*QGIS Total Number of Opens in this Current Month*" at the top is
wrong - it's identical to "last 30 days" to its left. Also the very
bottom shows the number should be 3.5 million not 10 million.
* "*QGIS Total Number of Opens in this Current Month*" at the top says
499,262, but the graph (*QGIS Daily Opens - last 30 days*) shows 500,359
for yesterday if I mouse over it.
Assuming it's SQL behind the scenes, I may be able to take a stab at it
if you want.
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 2022-04-29 22:35, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi Andreas
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 5:00 PM Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
>
> See also my answers to Régis for more context. More comments below.
> Note that I share the dashboard publicly so look here
> http://feed.qgis.org/metabase/public/dashboard/df81071d-4c75-45b8-a698-97b8649d7228
>
> especially at the little (i) indicators which I tried to populate with
> more defail.
>
>
> Looks really cool - thanks for working on this! I kind of expected
> the dominance of Windows as an operating system, but I am
> surprised to see one particular Windows (Windows 10) take such a
> large share. Many government agencies or companies that I know
> still use older Windows versions.
>
>
> I guess MS has been working hard to make the upgrade process smoother
> which is IMHO a good thing from a security point of view.
>
>
> I also wonder what hides behind some of the quite large bars in
> the category "Other"?
>
>
> We can break them out if needed.
>
>
>
>
> When it comes to QGIS versions, I think we should better aggregate
> only by major versions and for now ignore the minor versions. This
> large fragmentation into minor/minor versions seems to lead to
> this gigantic large bar of "Other".
>
> Yes it is on my todo list to aggregate all 3xxyy into 3xx so they show
> as one bucket.
>
>
> Question: is there any chance to put the absolute numbers in
> relation with the rough population size of a country. It is only
> natural that large countries like France, Germany, USA and Brazil
> open QGIS more often than smaller countries. But put in relation
> with population size, the pattern could look quite different.
>
>
> The first map already does this. The second one shows absolute numbers
> per territory regardless of population.
>
>
>
> My cartography teachers told me that it is absolutely forbidden to
> use absolute numbers in choropleth maps - ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN !
> Numbers always need to be put in relation with the size (area
> and/or population) of a country.
>
>
> He is probably right but I think the world of BI (Business
> Intelligence) has largely ignored him and the world is now littered
> with maps like this. I still think it is interesting to see the
> absolute numbers by country.
>
>
> Thanks a lot for your work to all people involved!
>
>
> No problem, and again let me extend the invitation to you to go onto
> the backend and help improve the dashboard, this is just my first
> chicken scratch. I think the real value will be to see the relative
> breakdown of platforms, versions countries and the changes to these
> over time so we can identify trends. In terms of absolute numbers I am
> still unsure if it tells us a real picture of how many users we have.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 15:57, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>
> Hi PSC
>
> I just wanted to give you some feedback on the work we have
> been doing to use anonymised telemetry data from the feed to
> try to get a handle on the number, geography and platform
> choice of our user base. There are detailed notes in the image
> below which should explain things. Currently it has only been
> running about 2 weeks so the year and month charts at the end
> look the same, but you can expect these to diverge over time.
>
> If you have other things you would like to report on with the
> available data, please pop me a note. I still want to
> aggregate the platform better to lump together Win, Mac,
> Linux and other instead of the more granular breakdown we get
> right now. I will do so when I get a chance.
>
> I do not plan to make the link to the live dashboard public as
> I don't want to put load on the feed server, but if you wish
> to access the dashboard, pop me a note and I will add you.
>
> https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/178003/165956926-a30c6c96-3b6b-4895-8afb-97e9ba0bd28c.png
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
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