From the last Google Analytics (GA) study on the usefulness of "pivots_block" on 4 recommendation algorithms, we learned that the classical "relevancy" algorithm generated the better results. Therefore, we used the relevancy algorithm on D.O. from Dec/4/2008 to Jan/9/2009. And the average click-thru rate was 0.474%.
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Recent GA results for "pivots_block" module recommendation system
Mon, 01/19/2009 - 15:59 — Daniel ZhouPivots module recommendation system Google Analysis results
Fri, 12/05/2008 - 00:14 — Daniel ZhouWe developed 4 module recommendation algorithms and tested them on Drupal.org. And we used Google Analytics and tracked the click-through rates. The overall click-through rate was 0.263%, co-occurrences 0.097%, relevance 0.141%, recency 0.114% and uniqueness 0.138%. The relevancy algorithm appeared to have the highest click-through rate, but it was only significantly higher than the co-occurrences algorithm.
Weekly report: 9.29~10.5, 2008
Sun, 10/05/2008 - 17:54 — Daniel ZhouLast week was a busy week too. The 502 students were going to have the mid-term exam, and the GSIs were busy helping the students. I finished some other works too, including the 703/708 homeworks.
This coming week I'm going to do these things:
1. Work with the Minnesota team and Kieran to come up with a pivots usability study plan. Push pivots to go live at the beginning of the week. Make some improvements to the recency/uniqueness algorithms.
2. Some works on the Digg, MITS, Smearbusters projects.
3. Routine 703/708/GSI works.
Weekly Report (Sept.22~28, 2008)
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 01:20 — Daniel ZhouLast week was extremely busy. I've got several work done on pivots, and the course workload was pretty heavy. Basically I did what I was supposed to do for the week.
Next week:
1. Pivots: do all the admin stuff listed in my PIM.
2. MITBBS project: finish IRB, proposal
3. 703: lead discussion, China Media ch1., project outline
4. 708: PS3
5. Routine 703/708/GSI stuff.
Good luck and go blue!!
Weekly report (Sept.14~22)
Sun, 09/21/2008 - 16:00 — Daniel ZhouThe week is getting very busy with all the course works and GSI teaching responsibilities and research work.
In the coming week, I will do the following:
1. Try to get the tracker info from D.O. module pages and try to get the pivots_block patch into the repository.
2. Work out the recency/uniqueness pivots algorithm.
3. Finish the first iteration of MITBBS program.
4. 703/708 study and 502 GSI work.
Weekly Report (Sept.8~14, 2008)
Mon, 09/15/2008 - 00:32 — Daniel ZhouLast week was pretty busy as always, and quite productive too. I had a talk with Paul and discussed the research agenda for the rest of the semester. The two courses 703/708 and the GSI teaching sessions took much of my time.
This week I will still need to do 703/708/GSI things. In terms of research, I'll think about different algorithms on pivots and try to summarize a few points for the pre-candidacy paper.
Weekly Report (Sept.1~7, 2008)
Mon, 09/08/2008 - 12:36 — Daniel ZhouThe new semester begins last week. The first week was fine. I did the first classes in 703/708. Both of them seemed really interesting and promising. And I also did the GSI teaching, which went quite well. I think I liked it. In terms of research, I didn't do much about the pivots research because it's now holding by the patch issue queue.
Weekly report (Aug.25 ~ Aug.31)
Sun, 08/31/2008 - 19:39 — Daniel ZhouWhat I did last week:
- Attended several GSI seminars, preparing to be the 502 GSI
- Worked on the Facebook dev competition; discussed the possibility of developing the expertise tagging app on Facebook
- Developed a Python program that grab content from MITBBS. It would probably be my 708 project, might prepare me for my prelim research.
The new Fall semester is starting next week. What I will do in the coming week:
Weekly report (Aug.18 ~ Aug.24)
Mon, 08/25/2008 - 18:30 — Daniel ZhouWhat I did last week:
- Developed the patch to "drupalorg" module that migrates the pivots_block from s.d.o to d.o
- Attended the SI502 GSI meeting, and prepared for the course
- Finished self-study Python
- Started to develop a Python app that crawls MITBBS (this might be used in SI708 and my online deliberation research
- Explored the possibility of attending the fbFunds program
What I'll do this week:
- Accelerate the process that applies the patch to "drupalorg" module
- Attend all the required GSI sessions
Weekly report (Aug.4~Aug.17)
Mon, 08/18/2008 - 11:57 — Daniel ZhouWhat I did in the last 2 weeks.
- Developed the "cosine similarity" algorithm for the pivots system.
- Finished the Regression II class.
- Finished the first round study of Stata/Mathematica software packages
- Read some books on Deliberative Democracy
- Worked on building China Green Party website, in hope to build an online community for future research.
What I will do in the coming week.
- Migrate the pivots system from S.D.O to D.O.
- Read more papers on Deliberative/Conversation research
