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Re: [tor-bugs] #25383 [Metrics/Website]: Deprecate stats.html and stats/*.csv files
#25383: Deprecate stats.html and stats/*.csv files
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Reporter: karsten | Owner: metrics-team
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Metrics/Website | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by joss):
I might be almost unique in this, but I do actively use the existing full
user metric .csv files for the infolabe-anomalies mailing list
(<http://lists.infolabe.net/lists/listinfo/infolabe-anomalies>). This is
carrying out anomaly detection on a nightly basis looking at user numbers.
I'm not entirely sure to what extent this data would still be available
under the proposed change. I'm fine to update my code a bit to change
URLs, etc, but if the data disappeared entirely it would harm some of my
research quite considerably.
In a more general sense, I'd strongly advocate for an 'open data'
principle. You never know what research the next person coming along might
do, and what it might contribute. At the moment it's a simple curl/wget to
get that data -- if I had to wrangle a web interface as a precondition to
carrying out analysis on Tor metrics then it would (possibly) be extremely
awkward.
Again, though, maybe I'm misunderstanding the proposed changes.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25383#comment:2>
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