[okfn-help] CKAN searches

[Jonathan Gray]

Excellent! This is very interesting!

Re: UI stuff - I think it would be *really* useful to think about ways
we could better visually represent what is in CKAN. Whether this is
tag clouds, faceted browsing, or using some simple light visualisation
toolkit to do something clever. E.g. from
http://wiki.okfn.org/OpenVisualisation

For me qua user, this is a typical thing with query/search interfaces.
I get there, and see that I can search for things, but without some
teaser about what kind of thing is there to hook me in (or unless I am
looking for something very specific) - I might be inclined to bookmark
the site for a rainy day.

Also the more interesting entry points we can have into CKAN the more
likely it is that people will spot gaps, or think of other things to
add etc!

Jonathan

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:11 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> We've just done analysis on what people are searching for in CKAN. It
> came up during discussions about improving the CKAN UI (BTW all
> suggestions welcome) and thought it might be useful to share the top
> results to give a flavour of its use.
>
> The results reflect not only topics that users know there is open data
> for, but also topics they are hoping there might be data for! Note
> that the top few are a reflection on the suggestions in the CKAN
> search form (geo, shakespeare and science) and geodata is a favourite
> of mine for test purposes.
>
> Thanks to Nick Stenning for his command-line wizardry to munge the
> most recent server request logs.
>
> David
>
> 170 geo
> 98 country-
> 96 science
> 48 shakespeare
> 48 +shakespeare
> 44 music
> 35 geodata
> 35 geo+data
> 34 uk
> 23 a
> 22 network
> 22 belgium
> 21 health
> 20 biblios
> 19 postcode
> 19 population
> 18 weather
> 18 education
> 16 traffic
> 16 patent
> 16 law
> 16 finance
> 16 data
> 16 climate
> 14 gis
> 14 food+
> 14 food
> 14 film
> 14 energy
> 13 wikipedia
> 13 news
> 13 movie
> 13 history
> 13 crime
> 12 transport
> 12 physics
> 12 football
> 12 city
> 12 biology
> 12 UK
> 11 vote
> 11 twitter
> 11 stock
> 11 medical
> 11 language+
> 11 language
> 11 gov
> 10 sex
> 10 product
> 10 movies
> 10 ling
> 10 geocommons
> 10 environment
> 10 census
> 10 book
> 10 art+
> 10 art
> 10 airport
> 10 Uk
> 9 xml
> 9 ukgov
> 9 uk+gov
> 9 statistics
> 9 market
> 9 france+
> 9 france
> 9 e
> 9 business
> 9 WordNet
> 8 wiki
> 8 temperature
> 8 spanish
> 8 library
> 8 freebase
> 8 email
> 8 economy
> 8 economics
> 8 christian
> 8 chemistry
> 8 cars
> 8 books
> 7 water
> 7 text
> 7 test
> 7 tags%3Ageo
> 7 tags%3A+geo
> 7 srtm
> 7 sales
> 7 rdf
> 7 python
> 7 politics
> 7 perl
> 7 people
> 7 one
> 7 notes
> 7 images
> 7 image
> 7 groups%3Aukgov
> 7 french
> 7 flight
> 7 eutransparency
> 7 computer
> 7 ckan
> 7 cities
> 7 c+kan
> 7 bio*
> 6 us
> 6 un
> 6 trade
> 6 sport
> 6 retail
> 6 names
> 6 name
> 6 math
> 6 map
> 6 london
> 6 linux
> 6 linguistics
> 6 legislation
> 6 italy
> 6 government
> 6 google
> 6 gdp
> 6 eu
> 6 employment
> ... and a long tail!
>
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Jonathan Gray

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