Ed,

My understanding is you want to find out a way to find peak hours of the usage. 
 If so, this could be a good Web project.  

Generally speaking, you would have following steps:
1. A webpage to accept input and write to a database table
2. On the Webpage, no Data and Time are needed.  The information should be 
automatically generated by a field with timestamp data type
3. A chart page should include code of a loop to total the counts of timestamp 
based on the hours of the day you want, like 8am, 9am..., closing hour.  Use 
highchart or D3 to display the results.

With this done you can easily adapt the program to find out what are the peak 
days of the week, etc.

Kelly Zhu



-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Edward 
Iglesias
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 3:56 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Useage stats generator

Hello All,

Can anyone recommend a program to track usage.  We have a makerspace and 
students sign in to use VR or a 3D printer.  Thus we end up with a speadsheed 
that looks like


Date Name ID# Time VR 3D Print

5/8/17 Some Student 3:00 Y N
5/8/17 Another Student 3:25 N Y

What I am trying to do is figure out when our busiest times are and show that 
in a chart of some kind. Using Excel this is possible but cumbersome.
Can you share some solutions?

Thanks,

Edward Iglesias

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