Comments on: wpmu activity reports using the blog_activity plugin http://www.darcynorman.net/2009/03/23/wpmu-activity-reports-using-the-blog_activity-plugin/ apparently much happier in person Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:45:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Patrick Murray-John http://www.darcynorman.net/2009/03/23/wpmu-activity-reports-using-the-blog_activity-plugin/#comment-194731 Patrick Murray-John Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:26:26 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/?p=2967#comment-194731 Yep...as Jim says, I've got some funniness in the data due to the republishing -- republished posts get counted twice. That was the trade-off to grab data from anything with an RSS feed. I'm really interested in the fact that the posts per hour graph for you and for UMW follow the same pattern so closely. Quick rise in the morning, spike around 3pm, drop-off for dinner, then rise again before bedtime. Makes for a neat look at the patterns of behavior in the lives of our students. Not sure where else we could get a view like that. Wait, now that I've said that, I take it back. I'd love to compare charts of university library patronage and checkouts with these! Yep…as Jim says, I’ve got some funniness in the data due to the republishing — republished posts get counted twice. That was the trade-off to grab data from anything with an RSS feed.

I’m really interested in the fact that the posts per hour graph for you and for UMW follow the same pattern so closely. Quick rise in the morning, spike around 3pm, drop-off for dinner, then rise again before bedtime. Makes for a neat look at the patterns of behavior in the lives of our students. Not sure where else we could get a view like that. Wait, now that I’ve said that, I take it back. I’d love to compare charts of university library patronage and checkouts with these!

]]> By: Jim http://www.darcynorman.net/2009/03/23/wpmu-activity-reports-using-the-blog_activity-plugin/#comment-194730 Jim Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:08:50 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/?p=2967#comment-194730 man, How awesome, taking this stuff to the next level. Amazing graphs and love that you include the code for finding this stuff in the database. What's interesting is the scraping allows us to get all the information from sites not within the UMW Blogs database, i.e., sites that are being syndicated in through feedwordpress from other feeds. We are getting more and more of this, and I think much of our "activity" may be re-syndicated stuff to class blogs and what not, so I'm not gonna say the numbers don;t lie, because in our case they do a bit. But it is still a nice set of data and graphs to fawn over :) man,

How awesome, taking this stuff to the next level. Amazing graphs and love that you include the code for finding this stuff in the database.

What’s interesting is the scraping allows us to get all the information from sites not within the UMW Blogs database, i.e., sites that are being syndicated in through feedwordpress from other feeds. We are getting more and more of this, and I think much of our “activity” may be re-syndicated stuff to class blogs and what not, so I’m not gonna say the numbers don;t lie, because in our case they do a bit. But it is still a nice set of data and graphs to fawn over :)

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