Stats needed for the Website

[Mikejmnez]

Description

The draft website has some "made up stats" on the main page. These "stats" are a placeholder for some real numbers that should reflect the long history that OPeNDAP has, and its leadership/impact when it comes to but not limited to open-source, data democratization, and open science.

Visual Aid

Page URL

HOMEPAGE

Approach:

Write ideas below in the comments about stats that may be important for the site.

[Mikejmnez]

• I suggest to keep the 30+ years, but the rest should be replaced (these were simply made up as filler for the website)

[jgallagher59701]

Yeah, I saw that too. I think we have to work on stats.

[Mikejmnez]

@jgallagher59701 How about the following stats:

a) 30+ years of experience

Facilitating open data access

b) 14+ data handlers

Flexible data format compatibility. Source

c) 10+ access patterns

Interoperability with other software libraries.

Source

d) 5+ distinct implementations

Open source collaborations

Source: (HYRAX, ERDAP, THREDDS, PyDAP, and i forget the name of other ones cited in the history of opendap. There's another one in python+rust that I forget the name.

e) [missing value] data volume

available through opendap servers

(Don't have the source for data volumes available through opendap)

[Mikejmnez]

about data volume:

I came up with the estimate ~ 10Petabytes as follows:

#========
#  Typical access pattern for climatology data
#  Computing annual mean and anomalies over a decade for a
#  couple of surface field variables (monthly data), 
#  each ~ 10 Mbytes of uncompressed data
# ========

daily_users = 30  # conservative estimate of daily OPeNDAP users
volume_data_accessed = 30e9 #  ~ tens of gigabytes
days_in_year = 365
OPeNDAP_years = 30
total_volume = daily_users * volume_data_accessed * days_in_year*OPeNDAP_years
total_volume / 1e15
>>> 9.85

[Mikejmnez]

@jgallagher59701 ready for review...

[jgallagher59701]

Those seem like OK stats. As a bit of humor, you could add "1 official beverage" but only if you think that's OK.

[Mikejmnez]

I think perhaps we should leave that out, as an "internal stat" hahahaha