Ideas on Data
Here’s some of our thinking around the data we’ll be collecting from Pressible use and users:
Learning Applications
- Use/data creates more powerful learning tools
- “User metrics” will encourage people to use the system
- Giving users data about what they’re doing will push them to do more
- Data makes the site game-y: by adding competitiveness, the ability to affect order, and personal ownership, people will want to “play” more
Research Applications
- Show what we’re learning about how TC people act and use the site
- General metrics (frequency, length of post, etc.)
- Performance data: actual hits on the web
- Look at subsets of users to determine who is doing well
- Use public performance metrics to show that Pressible performs well on the web
- Use data to show that Pressible is an academic project that performs well publicly