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Re: More PM Stats

by CountZero (Bishop)
on Feb 15, 2004 at 17:47 UTC ( [id://329151]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to More PM Stats

Interesting, but I would not concentrate on statistics "by the hour" because we have Monks all over the world, so one Monk's night will be another Monk's day and that will tend to throw the statistics off I assume (unless the hour reported is the local time.

Perhaps some nice graphs to add to the data? And some more statistical figures (not only average, but also median, standard deviation, ...)

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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Re: Re: More PM Stats
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Feb 15, 2004 at 18:07 UTC
    CountZero,
    While I understand where you are coming from, try to think of it in a different light. While we do have monks from all over the world, the timestamp is a standard offset from GMT. That allows you to see heavy "usage" regardless of where monks are in the world. It is also not that difficult to adjust to local time.

    I would love to add graphics, but that is a bit beyond my capabilities at this point. I had no idea how useful/wanted this type of thing would be and that is why I threw it out here for discussion. If someone would like to collaborate, I am more than happy to have them on board.

    I am not sure what added benefit knowing things like the standard deviation would be, but I am willing to have a go at it if you think it is. I was expecting to hear people make requests like "Can you create a report where I can get all the day for a specific day i.e. my birthday?".

    Cheers - L~R
      Indeed, I was of course looking to see a statistic on when the Monk's are most active (are we living/working at night or during the day?) in their own timezone.

      Silly me, I overlooked the fact that server stats deal with load on the server. Mea culpa

      For "easy" graphics have a look at Apache::GD::Graph. I used it with great success and I'm no graphic artist either.

      All these statistical numbers help you to better understand the data as a whole. You can have different data with the same average value but a different standard deviation and this will tell you something about the spread of the values through the data. So -IMHO- it does add something.

      CountZero

      "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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