Impressive analysis! This is worth to discuss these findings in an academic venue.
Alexandre > On Jun 9, 2016, at 6:56 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Juraj, Andrei and I did a rough analysis collected from 94 computers over the > past 7 months. Of these, only 42 recorded more than 9 sessions so we only > focused on these. It can be because the rest switched off the data collection > in the meantime. We also excluded the computers of the GT team members. > > Of these 34 used the dive-in feature. That is, these users used at least one > contextual search. > > We looked at the event of acting on an element (pressing Enter), and we > collected the parent category. Acting on an item indicates that intent of > search. There are 35 categories used in total, with 8 being used by 10 people > (25% of the studied population) or more. Below you can see also the amount of > computers using it: > > <spotter-categories-distribution.png> > > 'Classes'->40 > 'Implementors'->38 > 'History'->34 > 'Menu'->24 > 'Packages'->23 > 'Messages'->19 > 'Catalog Projects'->12 > 'Instance methods'->10 > 'Senders'->9 > 'Pragmas'->6 > 'References'->5 > 'Playground named pages'->5 > 'Playground cached pages'->4 > 'Help topics'->4 > 'Examples'->3 > 'Super instance methods'->3 > 'Selectors'->3 > 'ws.stfx.eu'->2 > 'GitHub Baselines'->2 > 'Dirty Monticello packages'->2 > 'Class methods'->2 > 'Global variables'->1 > 'All subclasses'->1 > 'Example Subjects'->1 > 'Files'->1 > 'Monticello Repositories'->1 > 'Metacello Configurations'->1 > 'Class instance variables'->1 > 'Items'->1 > 'Tags'->1 > 'Help contents'->1 > 'Monticello Package'->1 > 'Instance variables'->1 > 'Productions'->1 > 'Methods'->1 > > Also, in this analysis, some of the categories appear also at deeper levels > (Senders, Implementors, References, Instance methods). > > As expected, Classes and Implementors are on top. Yet, the third is History, > and it is also interesting to see that there is a high usage of a search > through the World menu elements, but also of the Packages. > > We also note that there is quite a long tail, and this seems to confirm the > hypothesis that different people have different needs and that these > differences should be supported by the IDE. > > This analysis was carried out using the code that Juraj and Andrei put > together for analyzing the data from the event recorder. > > Cheers, > Doru > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "Value is always contextual." > > > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
