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The User Interface for the MIT Libraries Open Access Statistics Project
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Some author data is double- or triple-counted #104

Closed matt-bernhardt closed 10 years ago

matt-bernhardt commented 10 years ago

Some authors, particularly Eric von Hippel, are getting multiply-counted downloads on the map. The problem comes down to their being multiple name variants bubbling up from DSpace@MIT, which are being stored in the summary collection as separate records. The visualization UI (at least for the map) then performs a query for "all authors with this ID" and gets back each record - which are then summed and displayed incorrectly.

Clicking on multiple papers triggers a different query logic, as does exporting the data to a CSV. This problem only applies to overall author visualizations on the map.

matt-bernhardt commented 10 years ago

Over the long term, the logic for querying the summary collection probably needs to be further unified to prevent strange occurrences like this - it should be all or nothing.