Analytics/Reportcard/status

2011-04-30
Erik Zachte, Nimish Gautam and Erik Möller are investigating visualization toolkits to use in the report card (a monthly report of key metrics to measure community health). Additionally, they are streamlining and modularizing the report creation process.

2011-06-02
Erik Zachte, Nimish Gautam Erik Möller, Mani Pande and Asher Feldman laid down the requirements and groundwork of the next version of the Report Card. Erik Zachte's scripts will be modified to enter the data into a database, that can then be accessed with a dedicated API to automatically generate the report card and other charts using a visualization framework. The API will also be puclicly available for third parties to access the data.

2011-06-14
Doing:
 * Finalizing DB definition, creating DB with skeleton data
 * Finalizing visualization library selection based on comprehensive assessment

Done:
 * Oriented new team member Asher Feldman; completed hand-over of Account Creation Project tech support
 * Developed API response object definition
 * Defined core metrics for first dashboard
 * Assessed state of available gender stats via user prefs
 * Built out "metric adding" functionality