2023-04-05 Data WG Meeting notes

5 min

Any new folks?

@Brian Mesick

Lots of interest in the group at the conference, are there any new folks here today?

5 min

FC Roundup

@Brian Mesick

• Redis bus is moving quickly when I’m not at conferences!

• Google Analytics 4 upgrade is moving, expecting first PRs to land soon

• Still seeking suggestions for BI / Data analysts to help write reports

15 min

Conference data followup

@Brian Mesick

• Tutor / Cairn purchase

• Lots of interest in AI

• Lots of interest in improving community analytics

• Lots of interest in OARS (slides), demo seemed to go over well

• Pooling anonymized analytics across instances for research

10 min

OARS update

@Brian Mesick

• Demo server is up for messing around, not that exciting

• EduNEXT expected to contribute hours to OARS

• Lots of valuable conference feedback

  • Making things more pluggable

  • Front loading dbt work

  • Beefier bulk load options

  • Lots of interest in looping back to LMS, perhaps using xblock-asides?

    • Not many docs for this feature, see Runtime API

    • Anecdotal evidence that it still works :)

    • Video clip from 2016

    • Code is throughout edx-platform

    • @Andrew Shultz shared edx-arch-experiments + rapid-response-xblockwhich uses them.