PhyloStars/BeforeAndAfter

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Assessment Goals

The things we would like to know, and how they might be measured. We would need to have a baseline for each one, based on current BioStars activity in all domains.

  1. Level of activity
    • number of new evolution-related questions (responses, answers) in the past month
    • up-votes and responses to existing evolution-related questions in the past month
  2. Responsiveness and effectiveness
    • how many questions get an answer within a week? a response?
    • what is the distribution of waiting times for answers? responses?
  3. Community
    • how many users respond to (view) evolution-related questions?
    • what is the average expertise of users in this community?
    • what is the apparent male:female ratio?
    • how many different people view evolution-related content in a month?

Before

relative topics

reported number of results based on August 20, 2013 search

phylostars

  • phylostars 0

evolution

  • evolution 760

molecular evolution

  • ortholog* 1790
  • paralog* 186

phylogenetics - interestingly, most references to "distance matrix" and "mega" are the phylogenetics meanings

  • phylogen* 2920
  • Phylip 241
  • distance matrix 221
  • MEGA 137
  • MrBayes 124
  • PAUP 70
  • phylogram 36
  • cladogram 4

population genetics

  • population genetics 260
  • coalescent 19
  • McDonald-Kreitman 1