IETF Research Questions

Research questions of interest for IETF101 Hackathon hacking

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• how many participants total in IETF work?
• how "sticky" is participation?
  • what's the attrition rate?
  • what's the distribution of length of participation?
• who has participated longest? across the most groups?
  • is there a core across working groups?
  • how many groups does the typical participant join?

• How does participation look like per affiliation?

• How did participation per affiliation and affiliate category develop over time?

• What is the relationship between mailinglist participation and RFC authors

• How did the usage of specific words evolve (of combined lists, and specific lists)

  • How do certain topical words move between mailinglist, are there central nodes for this?
  • What are 'trending topics' for X period for X mailinglist

• What is the gender distribution of participants?
  • Does the gender distribution of conversation differ from the gender distribution of the participants?

Existing notebooks / work

• word analysis

  • single word trends, multi word trends across list [DONE]
  • influential words (that move between mailing lists?) [DONE]
  • recurring words from particular senders [DONE]
  • use of words by a user on multiple lists [DONE]
  • first occurrence in a list [DONE]

• interaction graphs

  • replies between people
  • threads and thread lengths
  • overlap between mailing lists/groups

• entity resolution / consolidation

  • affiliation

• basic descriptive statistics on a mailing list

• cohort visualization [DONE]

Presentation

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Statistics:

• Amount of total emails 1.944.019

• Amount of emailaddresses these were sent from 19204

• Number of mailinglists 1016 downloaded, 955 analyzed

• One mailaddress sent 80533 messages

• Most contributors sent 1 or 2 messages (spam?)

• Cohorts / tenure

Network Analysis

• Clustering vs one community
• Showing clusters
• Centrality of top posters
• What percentage of mails was sent by the top 1% contributors

Word

• uses of IPv6, middlebox/es, catenet, DECnet on ietf@ietf
• influential words

Threads

• Longest thread on ietf@ietf