Greetings all,
From now on, I'm going to report the project progress of the "pivots recommendation system for drupal.org" on this blog.
The "pivots" project is an attempt to generate module recommendations to D.O. users. The idea is to display on a module page the related forum conversations and related modules that are referenced in the same conversations. We think it could provide useful information to users when they evaluate the modules.
We have deployed the system on D.O. to site maintainers and CVS account holders since June 1, 2008. More than 900 users has tried using the system since then. Statistics shows that the conversation pivot block got a 2.76% click-through rate, the double pivot block got a 1.25% click-through rate. Survey shows that 73.8% feedback on the conversation pivot was positive, and 77% positive feedback on the double pivot. To see the brief report, please click here. To see the full report, please click here.
The study gives us reasons to believe that pivots would be helpful to D.O. users in finding module recommendations. And we are now planning to make it available to more users. In the meantime, we will continue to make the algorithm works better. People's feedback and suggestions would be much appreciated.
Lastly, I'd like to thank Kieran Lal and my advisor Prof. Paul Resnick for their constant support.
Thanks!
--Daniel
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DUG.
Tue, 07/22/2008 - 09:09 — AnonymousI watched your presentation on Pivots last summer at the Ann Arbor Drupal Users Group (http://groups.drupal.org/ann-arbor). You should come again and give a presentation at the next meeting.
yes!
Thu, 07/31/2008 - 17:48 — Daniel Zhoui'm glad to give another presentation at AA DUG. Thanks for the reminder.
Why is documentation neglected?
Mon, 07/21/2008 - 21:02 — AnonymousI'm hopeful and look forward to seeing this in action. I wonder why the documentation pages are excluded from this (or perhaps they're included but you forgot to mention this). It's extremely frustrating chasing down module information that might in 2 to 10 different places in the Handbook (e.g., snippets, non-developer documentation, theming). This information often provides much clarification on module usage and is therefore valuable for making a decision.
next version
Thu, 07/31/2008 - 17:49 — Daniel Zhouyes. in the next version, we'll try to add Documentation and Issues in the block.
Thanks for the suggestion.