answers: add analytics / 'interesting bits' page

[gavanderhoorn]

Might show things like:

• [x] question with most upvotes
• [x] answers with the most upvotes
• [x] questions with most answers
• [x] question with highest nr of views
• [ ] questions ranked by upvotes vs views ratio
• [ ] histogram of close reasons vs questions closed
• [ ] cumulative graph(s) of close reasons vs questions closed (to see 'bumps' in duplicates fi)
• [ ] questions with highest nr of comments
• [ ] histogram of nr of answers for a single question (ie: questions with 1 answer, with 2 answers, etc)
• [ ] question with highest nr of upvotes with (a) particular tag(s)
• [ ] intra-site cross-references (ie: how many times is a question linked to from other questions, either by full URL or just question ID)

[DLu]

These are reasonable requests though would require some minor work. The only architectural problem is that right now we don't record the closed reason or the number of comments.

[gavanderhoorn]

The only architectural problem is that right now we don't record the closed reason or the number of comments.

Is 'we' here ros_metrics, or Askbot?

[DLu]

A bit of both. Askbot API link

• The API does not return any info about the comments other than on a per-user basis, and ros_metrics doesn't save that.
• I only implemented the functionality in the Askbot API to return closed information recently. However, I have not added the functionality to ros_metrics to save that data anywhere.

[gavanderhoorn]

Added "intra-site cross-references" which I feel would be interesting to see. Especially for questions that "cause" other questions to get closed. This would be another way of understanding how valuable a question and/or answer is.

[gavanderhoorn]

Thanks for working on this @DLu :+1: