Project:LHS Graphs and Visualizations

LHS Graphs and Visualizations
Members	Elliot
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Overview

I'd like to supplement the Cacti graphs that we have for LHS bandwidth and power with metrics that provide insight to the growth of our community and organisation over time.

Phase 1 is complete and we now chart the following:

• Number of members
• IRC activity
• Wiki activity
• Mailing list activity
• Space occupancy

Later I'd like to investigate:

• Website visitors and/or page impressions

In progress

See project: spacensus

Desired

Website visitors and/or page impressions

The main site and the Wiki use Google Analytics and this has an API. This documented method looks promising:

 https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/data?metrics=ga%3Avisits%2Cga%3Apageviews&start-date=2010-11-29&end-date=2010-12-13&max-results=50

Done

To chart the initial metrics various bits of data are exposed in a Cacti friendly way.

Number of members

COMPLETE - but may have to wait 12 months before it becomes interesting.

This data is stored in an Sqlite database on Turing. See the Schema. It can be queried like so:

 SELECT COUNT(id)
 FROM users
 WHERE subscribed = true;

Cacti runs on babbage but the members database is on Turing. There is a PHP script on Turing to expose the member numbers and then a script on babbage to pull this in with a HTTP request.

Code: https://github.com/londonhackspace/monitoring URL: http://london.hackspace.org.uk/member_stats.php

Wiki statistics

COMPLETE

• We get this using the MediaWiki API:

 http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics&format=xml

It returns:

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <api>
   <query>
     <statistics
       pages="759"
       articles="215"
       views="229656"
       edits="7368"
       images="186"
       users="166"
       activeusers="22"
       admins="61"
       jobs="13"
     />
   </query>
 </api>

A Perl script generates the following output for cacti: pages:759 articles:215 views:229656 edits:7368 images:186 users:166 activeusers:22 admins:61 jobs:13

Code: https://github.com/londonhackspace/monitoring

IRC statistics

COMPLETE

There is a bot (ircensus) in the #london-hack-space channel that collects data on the following:

• Active users (/5min)
• Number of messages (/5min)
• Total users

This bot runs on Babbage and has an HTTP interface that outputs: london-hack-spaceMessages:5 london-hack-spaceActiveUsers:2 london-hack-spaceTotalUsers:102

 http://localhost:42002/

Mailing list activity

COMPLETE

• My thanks to JamesG for his assistance and '78.86.160.161' for the original idea. We poll and scrape the groups page for members and and message count.

 http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space

We have a script that outputs: members:693 messages:3123

Code: https://github.com/londonhackspace/monitoring