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?

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