PhyloStars/BeforeAndAfter
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.
- 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
- Responsiveness and effectiveness
- how many questions get an answer within a week? a response?
- what is the distribution of waiting times for answers? responses?
- 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