Re: Word cloud for ooo-dev post subjects

[Kevin Grignon <ke...@gmail.com>]

KG01 - See comments inline.

On Saturday, June 30, 2012, Rob Weir wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Kevin Grignon
> <kevingrignon.oo@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >KG01 - Great stuff Rob. These simple analytics are really interesting.
> *Would
> > you be open to harvesting and sharing the extracted post titles for both
> > ooo-dev and ooo-users and sending along to me*. The Python bit is
> > unfamiliar to me. The text files, like you did for the twitter feeds
> would
> > be great. Then I can go into wordle and tweak, using a variety of
> filters.
> > Also, I am exploring other analytic tools to parse the data. Thanks.
> >
>
> Here they are:
>
> http://people.apache.org/~robweir/ooo-dev-subjects.zip
> http://people.apache.org/~robweir/ooo-users-subjects.zip
>
> -Rob


KG01 - Thanks for sharing. I'll see what I can do with this raw data.
>
>
> >
> >
> >> >> In this particular cloud, I used all posts, including responses.  So
> >> >> if a term was used in a thread that had many responses, it would have
> >> >> additional weight in this chart.
> >> >>
> >> >> Technologies used:
> >> >>
> >> >> Python's mailbox API to extract the post titles.  Could have done
> this
> >> >> with any number of command line text tools as well, but it is trivial
> >> >> in Python as well:
> >> >>
> >> >> import mailbox
> >> >>
> >> >> box = mailbox.mbox(fileName)
> >> >>
> >> >> for message in box:
> >> >>     print message['Subject']
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Then I used Wordle.net to generate the graphic.
> >> >>
> >> >> Based on the reaction given to the previous word cloud, I know that
> >> >> some list subscribers are curious to see how often we write about
> >> >> LibreOffice.  So I'll help you find it in this graphic.  Look for the
> >> >> big "AOO", then under that see the "COMMIT".  Under COMMIT you can
> >> >> make out LIBREOFFICE, to the left of USERS.
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards,
> >> >>
> >> >> -Rob
> >> >
> >> > Somehow not as stylish in this font.
> >> >
> >> > "Bug" is visible in this one.  No one tweets about bugs?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I think this is a user/developer difference.  Users talk in more
> >> direct terms, about how bugs impact them.    So very few mention a
> >> "bug".  But 18 mentions on Twitter of some form of
> >> crash/crashed/crashing.   On the ooo-dev list we call these "bugs" or
> >> "issues".  Users "lose all their work".  We "debug an exception".  The
> >> army "pacifies the village", etc.
> >>
> >> It is good to remember the difference in impact our work (good or bad)
> >> has on others, even though we use more clinical terms on this list.
> >>
> >> -Rob
> >>
> >>
> >> > Don
> >>
>