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Some interest has been expressed in the development of an administrative tool to draw together and present usage statistics for UC Davis Sakai/SmartSite. Before moving forward, we want to get people's opinions on what they would like to establish what the scope of the need for such a tool might besee happen in this direction.
Primary interest groups/views/consumers of Sakai usage statistics
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- Technical (developers, dbas)
- to predict growth, evaluate long-term resource needs; to quantify performance
- Communications/Marketing
- to track adoption and articulate user interest
- Management
- to determine strategy based on current usage groups; to target specific groups for adoption
Types of data analysis
We can talk about potential solutions as falling into one or the other of these two forms of data analysis:Potential solutions will probably fall into at least one of these two areas.
- Real time event monitoring
- Data-mining of existing usage information in the database
What's already out there?
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A group in Portugal has put together a tool called SiteStats, which is currently marked as a Sakai Contrib, . It provides what is effectively an instructor-level view of usage on a site-by-site basis. Some of the logic of this code, however, may be useful in developing more of a global analysis of the data already available, which does not at the moment seem to fit exactly with what's needed here at UC Davis. But it may be possible to make use of some of their code or user interface.
– Confluence Docs: http://issues.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/Gz0
– SVN for v2.1.x: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/ufp/sakai_2-1-x/sitestats/
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