[Biopython] some eye opening stats

Istvan Albert iua1 at psu.edu
Thu Dec 17 13:47:23 EST 2009


Hello Everyone,

So I ran some statistics on this group (see below) that includes the
entire past year. Make you own decisions based on it.

Here is one of my observation:  I find it saddening that I made the
list at number 18!  That's some niche list where one person posting
ten messages in a whole year gets to be at number 18. In fact I only
need three more posts to make myself top ten poster! Would you still
claim this to be a good way to establish, grow and interact with a
community?

I said this many times before, and I'll try for this to be the last
time I bring this up:

I believe biopython is a niche software tool because *YOU* are
limiting its reach *YOURSELVES* by making inappropriate decisions as
far as accessibility and community goes. It will stay so as long as
you don't recognize and act on this.

best regards,

Istvan Albert

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Statistics from 1.12.2008 to 17.12.2009
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
***** People who have written most messages:
+----+-----Author-----------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
|  1 | biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk (Peter)   |  472 | 39.70 % |
|  2 | chapmanb at 50mail.com (Brad Chapman)        |   53 |  4.46 % |
|  3 | p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com (Peter Cock)    |   36 |  3.03 % |
|  4 | lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q? |   27 |  2.27 % |
|  5 | mjldehoon at yahoo.com (Michiel de Hoon)     |   23 |  1.93 % |
|  6 | cjfields at illinois.edu (Chris Fields)      |   22 |  1.85 % |
|  7 | dalloliogm at gmail.com (Giovanni Marco Dall |   21 |  1.77 % |
|  8 | winda002 at student.otago.ac.nz (David Winte |   15 |  1.26 % |
|  9 | lpritc at scri.ac.uk (Leighton Pritchard)    |   14 |  1.18 % |
| 10 | cmckay at u.washington.edu (Cedar McKay)     |   13 |  1.09 % |
| 11 | italo.maia at gmail.com (Italo Maia)         |   12 |  1.01 % |
| 12 | kellrott at gmail.com (Kyle Ellrott)         |   12 |  1.01 % |
| 13 | rodrigo_faccioli at uol.com.br (Rodrigo facc |   12 |  1.01 % |
| 14 | bartek at rezolwenta.eu.org (Bartek Wilczyns |   12 |  1.01 % |
| 15 | anaryin at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_Ro |   11 |  0.93 % |
| 16 | bartomas at gmail.com (bar tomas)            |   11 |  0.93 % |
| 17 | pzs at dcs.gla.ac.uk (Peter Saffrey)         |   11 |  0.93 % |
| 18 | iua1 at psu.edu (Istvan Albert)              |   10 |  0.84 % |
| 19 | dejmail at gmail.com (Liam Thompson)         |   10 |  0.84 % |
| 20 | stran104 at chapman.edu (Matthew Strand)     |   10 |  0.84 % |
| 21 | ibdeno at gmail.com (Miguel Ortiz Lombardia) |    9 |  0.76 % |
| 22 | pengyu.ut at gmail.com (Peng Yu)             |    9 |  0.76 % |
| 23 | yvan.strahm at bccs.uib.no (Yvan Strahm)     |    9 |  0.76 % |
| 24 | kelly.oakeson at utah.edu (Kelly F Oakeson)  |    9 |  0.76 % |
| 25 | carlos.borroto at gmail.com (Carlos Javier B |    9 |  0.76 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
|    | other                                        |  337 | 28.34 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+

***** Best authors, by total size of their messages (w/o quoting):
+----+-----Author-------------------------------------------+-KBytes-+
|  1 | biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk (Peter)           |  391.4 |
|  2 | chapmanb at 50mail.com (Brad Chapman)                |   48.1 |
|  3 | lpritc at scri.ac.uk (Leighton Pritchard)            |   39.1 |
|  4 | p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com (Peter Cock)            |   35.7 |
|  5 | lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Stefanie |   27.9 |
|  6 | matzke at berkeley.edu (Nick Matzke)                 |   21.2 |
|  7 | animesh.agrawal at anu.edu.au (Animesh Agrawal)      |   21.1 |
|  8 | kelly.oakeson at utah.edu (Kelly F Oakeson)          |   16.7 |
|  9 | pzs at dcs.gla.ac.uk (Peter Saffrey)                 |   15.4 |
| 10 | dalloliogm at gmail.com (Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio)   |   14.7 |
| 11 | natassa_g_2000 at yahoo.com (natassa)                |   12.7 |
| 12 | hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp)                       |   12.7 |
| 13 | mmokrejs at ribosome.natur.cuni.cz (=?UTF-8?B?TWFydG |   12.5 |
| 14 | cjfields at illinois.edu (Chris Fields)              |   12.0 |
| 15 | bartek at rezolwenta.eu.org (Bartek Wilczynski)      |   11.6 |
| 16 | winda002 at student.otago.ac.nz (David Winter)       |   11.3 |
| 17 | cmckay at u.washington.edu (Cedar McKay)             |   11.0 |
| 18 | mjldehoon at yahoo.com (Michiel de Hoon)             |   10.9 |
| 19 | dejmail at gmail.com (Liam Thompson)                 |   10.6 |
| 20 | rodrigo_faccioli at uol.com.br (Rodrigo faccioli)    |   10.3 |
| 21 | anaryin at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_Rodrigues? |    9.7 |
| 22 | fufezan at uni-muenster.de (Christian Fufezan)       |    9.6 |
| 23 | kellrott at gmail.com (Kyle Ellrott)                 |    9.2 |
| 24 | peter at maubp.freeserve.co.uk (Peter)               |    8.9 |
| 25 | ibdeno at gmail.com (Miguel Ortiz Lombardia)         |    8.3 |
+----+------------------------------------------------------+--------+

***** Best authors, by average size of their message (w/o quoting):
+----+-----Author--------------------------------------------+-bytes-+
|  1 | agarbino at gmail.com (Alex Garbino)                  |  7991 |
|  2 | aduran at fhcrc.org (Duran, Alysha M)                 |  3893 |
|  3 | n.j.loman at bham.ac.uk (Nick Loman)                  |  3877 |
|  4 | mmueller at python-academy.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Mike_M |  3816 |
|  5 | animesh.agrawal at anu.edu.au (Animesh Agrawal)       |  3598 |
|  6 | ivan at biodec.com (Ivan Rossi)                       |  2947 |
|  7 | thomas.e.keller at gmail.com (Thomas Keller)          |  2937 |
|  8 | lpritc at scri.ac.uk (Leighton Pritchard)             |  2860 |
|  9 | matzke at berkeley.edu (Nick Matzke)                  |  2717 |
| 10 | jhcepas at gmail.com (Jaime Huerta Cepas)             |  2705 |
| 11 | fufezan at uni-muenster.de (Christian Fufezan)        |  2447 |
| 12 | natassa_g_2000 at yahoo.com (natassa)                 |  2175 |
| 13 | bav853 at bham.ac.uk (Bhima A van der Molen)          |  1987 |
| 14 | kteague at bcgsc.ca (Kevin Teague)                    |  1932 |
| 15 | danielchubb at gmail.com (Daniel Chubb)               |  1923 |
| 16 | lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de (=?utf-8?Q?Stefanie_L=C3= |  1919 |
| 17 | dalloliogm at fastwebnet.it (Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio |  1915 |
| 18 | kelly.oakeson at utah.edu (Kelly F Oakeson)           |  1895 |
| 19 | bav853 at bham.ac.uk (Bhima Auro van der Molen)       |  1874 |
| 20 | darnells at dnastar.com (Steve Darnell)               |  1768 |
| 21 | gatoygata at hotmail.com (Joaquin Abian Monux)        |  1744 |
| 22 | srini_iyyer_bio at yahoo.com (Srinivas Iyyer)         |  1733 |
| 23 | bassbabyface at yahoo.com (Ben O'Loghlin)             |  1698 |
| 24 | hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp)                        |  1624 |
| 25 | mmokrejs at ribosome.natur.cuni.cz (=?UTF-8?B?TWFydGl |  1603 |
+----+-------------------------------------------------------+-------+

***** Table showing the most successful subjects:
+----+----Subject-----------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
|  1 | [Biopython] suggestion: moving to the discus |   33 |  2.78 % |
|  2 | [Biopython] Problems parsing with PSIBlastPa |   32 |  2.69 % |
|  3 | [BioPython] The count method of a Seq (or Mu |   23 |  1.93 % |
|  4 | [Biopython] Biopython and Snow Leopard       |   21 |  1.77 % |
|  5 | [Biopython] Phylogenetic trees with biopytho |   16 |  1.35 % |
|  6 | [Biopython] Indexing large sequence files    |   15 |  1.26 % |
|  7 | [Biopython] SQL Alchemy based BioSQL         |   14 |  1.18 % |
|  8 | [BioPython] AlignIO: Sequences of different  |   13 |  1.09 % |
|  9 | [Biopython] searching for a human chromosome |   13 |  1.09 % |
| 10 | [Biopython] BLAST against mouse genome only  |   12 |  1.01 % |
| 11 | [Biopython] How to get sequences upstream of |   12 |  1.01 % |
| 12 | [Biopython] Parsing large blast files        |   11 |  0.93 % |
| 13 | [Biopython] Additions to the SeqRecord       |   11 |  0.93 % |
| 14 | [Biopython] Biopython & p3d                  |   11 |  0.93 % |
| 15 | [BioPython] Feedback from Biopython 1.50 bet |   10 |  0.84 % |
| 16 | [BioPython] Adding startswith and endswith m |   10 |  0.84 % |
| 17 | [Biopython] Bio.Sequencing.Ace               |   10 |  0.84 % |
| 18 | [Biopython] Entrez.read return value is type |   10 |  0.84 % |
| 19 | [Biopython] SeqIO for fasta conversion of Il |   10 |  0.84 % |
| 20 | [Biopython] Parsing problem                  |    9 |  0.76 % |
| 21 | [Biopython] Fasta.index_file: functionality  |    9 |  0.76 % |
| 22 | [Biopython] Adaptor trimmer and dimers       |    9 |  0.76 % |
| 23 | [BioPython] Is query_length really the lengt |    8 |  0.67 % |
| 24 | [BioPython] Reading Roche 454 binary SFF fil |    8 |  0.67 % |
| 25 | [Biopython] Writing into a PDB file using PD |    8 |  0.67 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
|    | other                                        |  851 | 71.57 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+

***** Most used email clients:
+----+----Mailer------------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
|  1 | (unknown)                                    | 1189 |100.00 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
|    | other                                        |    0 |  0.00 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+

***** Table of maximal quoting:
+----+-----Author------------------------------------------+-Percent-+
|  1 | golubchi at stats.ox.ac.uk (Tanya Golubchik)        | 94.68 % |
|  2 | fredgca at hotmail.com (Frederico Arnoldi)          | 92.56 % |
|  3 | srikrishnamohan at gmail.com (km)                   | 92.28 % |
|  4 | cmckay at u.washington.edu (Cedar Mckay)            | 88.19 % |
|  5 | harekrishna at gmail.com (Austin Davis-Richar       | 87.51 % |
|  6 | biopython.chen at gmail.com (chen Ku)               | 86.14 % |
|  7 | wgheath at gmail.com (William Heath)                | 85.12 % |
|  8 | jkhilmer at gmail.com (Jonathan Hilmer)             | 82.50 % |
|  9 | andrea at biodec.com (Andrea)                       | 80.82 % |
| 10 | nuin at genedrift.org (Paulo Nuin)                  | 79.90 % |
| 11 | lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de (lueck at ipk-gat       | 78.81 % |
| 12 | ibdeno at gmail.com (Miguel Ortiz Lombardia)        | 78.57 % |
| 13 | oda at georgetown.edu (Ogan ABAAN)                  | 75.33 % |
| 14 | sean.maceach at gmail.com (Sean MacEachern)         | 75.09 % |
| 15 | pengyu.ut at gmail.com (Peng Yu)                    | 73.17 % |
| 16 | fungazid at yahoo.com (Fungazid)                    | 71.57 % |
| 17 | yvan.strahm at bccs.uib.no (Yvan Strahm)            | 70.23 % |
| 18 | cjfields at illinois.edu (Chris Fields)             | 70.18 % |
| 19 | sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov (Sean Davis)                | 68.54 % |
| 20 | thomas.hamelryck at gmail.com (Thomas Hamelry       | 68.31 % |
| 21 | mjldehoon at yahoo.com (Michiel de Hoon)            | 66.49 % |
| 22 | mavata at gmail.com (Manu Tamminen)                 | 66.42 % |
| 23 | eric.talevich at gmail.com (Eric Talevich)          | 65.92 % |
| 24 | bsouthey at gmail.com (Bruce Southey)               | 64.70 % |
| 25 | biopythonlist at gmail.com (dr goettel)             | 64.53 % |
+----+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+
|    | average                                             | 44.57 % |
+----+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+

***** Graph showing number of messages written during hours of day:

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hour  0         5           11          17          23


***** Graph showing number of messages written during days of month:

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 day  1         6           12          18          24            31


***** Graph showing number of messages written during days of week:

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***** Maximal quoting:
      Author     : andrea at biodec.com (Andrea)
      Subject    : [Biopython] Problems parsing with PSIBlastParser
      Date       : Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:39:48 +0200
      Quote ratio: 98.63% / 15890 bytes

***** Longest message:
      Author     : chapmanb at 50mail.com (Brad Chapman)
      Subject    : [Biopython] Skipping over blank/erroneous Entrez.esummary()
      Date       : Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:29:11 -0400
      Size       : 18503 bytes

***** Most successful subject:
      Subject    : [Biopython] suggestion: moving to the discussion
list to Google
      No. of msgs: 33
      Total size : 43527 bytes

***** Final summary:
      Total number of messages:             1189
      Total number of different authors:    159
      Total number of different subjects:   332
      Total size of messages (w/o headers): 1992170 bytes
      Average size of a message:            1675 bytes

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Istvan Albert
http://www.personal.psu.edu/iua1


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