Comments on: Meet the Analytics Team

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:24:03 +0000

Analytics and Data! My favourite! Thanks for sharing all this info and good luck to the new Wiki Analytics team.

By: Pete Forsyth

Pete Forsyth — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:00:52 +0000

This is really fantastic news. I am continually hoping for ways to address the kinds of questions you raise above, and am happy to see there is a clear path toward building the needed infrastructure. Looking forward to learning more!

By: Gidoca

Gidoca — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:13:24 +0000

I’m not sure it is a good idea to name it Kraken. In German the word “Datenkraken” (“Daten” meaning data) is used for companies like Google, which “grab” your data and make profit out of it. To me, it has a distinctively negative connotation in this context.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:19:39 +0000

Really interesting stuff, Diederik!

By: bawolff

bawolff — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:52:32 +0000

/me misses functional names for things

Kraken vs ClickTracking (although a brief look suggests Kraken is a much broader project)

Flow vs LiquidThreads (Although i suppose liquid is far from functional)

But you get my point – Adjective-y names vs unrelated verby names (Echo, Flow) or mathology names (Kraken, Athena)

Otoh I suppose there are benefits to these types of names. They certainly sound cooler (Mono is a disease, I don’t want no disease in my books. Athena is a diety and dietys are usually at the top of the social hierarcy)