[Bioc-devel] Use and Usability metrics / shields
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From: "Wolfgang Huber" <whuber at embl.de> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 4:03:54 AM Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Use and Usability metrics / shields Can it be that the ?in Bioc? shield is incorrect? For instance, it says ?9.98 years? for vsn but the first commit was in Oct 2002 Curiously ?9.98 years? is stated for many old packages - surely we can use R for more precise date arithmetic?
It is not counting from the first commit (as it says in the tooltip text) but from the day of the first release in which the package appeared. So it does not count the time that the package is in devel only. Dan
Cheers Wolfgang
On May 13, 2015, at 21:36 GMT+2, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org> wrote: ----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <henrik.bengtsson at ucsf.edu> To: "COMMO Frederic" <Frederic.COMMO at gustaveroussy.fr> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:28:54 PM Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Use and Usability metrics / shields Sweet; you went live with the badges/shields, e.g. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/affxparser.html A positive side effect is that now there's a link from the package page to to the package's check results, which I always wanted :)
That was there before (and still is, see the bottom of the Details section). But yes, it was not very visible. Dan
Thanks for adding this /Henrik On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 11:39 AM, COMMO Frederic <Frederic.COMMO at gustaveroussy.fr> wrote:
Dear Martin, All of these suggestions sound good. Wolfgang's suggestion regarding possible associated papers might be also great. Another useful information would be to point to other publications where a given package was used, and cited. I don't know if it's technically possible, but it would be greatly informative to know how frequently a package is used, and how it performs, in real contexts. Frederic Commo Bioinformatics, U981 Gustave Roussy
________________________________________ De : Bioc-devel [bioc-devel-bounces at r-project.org] de la part de Wolfgang Huber [whuber at embl.de] Date d'envoi : samedi 9 mai 2015 19:57 ? : Martin Morgan Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org Objet : Re: [Bioc-devel] Use and Usability metrics / shields Dear Martin great idea. "Current build status? could perhaps be wrapped with "Cross-platform availability? into some sort of ?Availability / Accessibility?? I wonder how informative it would be to make metrics such as (i) citations of the associated paper (ii) full-text mentions e.g. in PubmedCentral actually useful. (i) could be flawed if package and paper are diverged; (ii) would require good disambiguation, e.g. like bioNerDS http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/194 (or other tools? not my expertise). Do we have someone with capabilities in this area on this list? PS Martin you?ll like Fig. 2 of their paper. Wolfgang On May 9, 2015, at 19:15 GMT+2, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fredhutch.org> wrote: Bioc developers! It's important that our users be able to identify packages that are suitable for their research question. Obviously a first step is to identify packages in the appropriate research domain, for instance through biocViews. http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/ We'd like to help users further prioritize their efforts by summarizing use and usability. Metrics include: - Cross-platform availability -- biocLite()-able from all or only some platforms - Support forum activity -- questions and comments / responses, 6 month window - Download percentile -- top 5, 20, 50%, or 'available' - Current build status -- errors or warnings on some or all platforms - Developer activity -- commits in the last 6 months - Historical presence -- years in Bioconductor Obviously the metrics are imperfect, so constructive feedback welcome -- we think the above capture in a more-or-less objective and computable way the major axes influencing use and usability. We initially intend to prominently display 'shields' (small graphical icons) on package landing pages. Thanks in advance for your comments, Martin Morgan Bioconductor -- Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 Phone: (206) 667-2793 _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
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