PhyloStars/BeforeAndAfter

Assessment Goals

The things we would like to know, and how they might be measured. We would need to have a baseline for each one, based on current BioStars activity in all domains.

1. Level of activity
   • number of new evolution-related questions (responses, answers) in the past month
   • up-votes and responses to existing evolution-related questions in the past month
2. Responsiveness and effectiveness
   • how many questions get an answer within a week? a response?
   • what is the distribution of waiting times for answers? responses?
3. Community
   • how many users respond to (view) evolution-related questions?
   • what is the average expertise of users in this community?
   • what is the apparent male:female ratio?
   • how many different people view evolution-related content in a month?

Before

relative topics

reported number of results based on August 20, 2013 search

phylostars

• phylostars 0

evolution

• evolution 760

molecular evolution

• ortholog* 1790
• paralog* 186

phylogenetics - interestingly, most references to "distance matrix" and "mega" are the phylogenetics meanings

• phylogen* 2920
• Phylip 241
• distance matrix 221
• MEGA 137
• MrBayes 124
• PAUP 70
• phylogram 36
• cladogram 4

population genetics

• population genetics 260
• coalescent 19
• McDonald-Kreitman 1