The R usage survey goo.gl/jw1ig has been updated with the following changes:
Addition of - Disclaimer : This data will not be used for any commercial purposes Do not include any personally identifiable information Contact: Harsh Singhal (singhalblr AT gmail DOT com) for any queries Removal of - Name field My primary purpose in conducting this survey is - - Find multiple use cases for various R packages - Understand the nature of work when R is being used in Academia / Commercial settings - The kind of technologies that are being used in conjunction with R (popularity of usage of Python with R, and what purpose does using Python solve) The outcome of this analysis will be published on my blog (in the process of being created). There is absolutely no commercial purpose behind collecting this information and as earlier stated, this information will not be shared with personally identifiable information. Thank you once again Mr. Dwyer and Mr. Venables for raising very import questions. I thank the R users who have already filled in the survey goo.gl/jw1ig and request more to do so. Regards, Harsh Singhal On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:41 AM, <bill.venab...@csiro.au> wrote: > No. That's not answering the question. ALL surveys are for collecting > information. > > The substantive issue is what purpose do you have in seeking this > information in the first place and what are you going to do with it when you > get it? > > Do you have some commercial purpose in mind? If so, what is it? > > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Harsh > Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 1:13 AM > To: rex.dw...@syngenta.com > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] R usage survey > > Hi Rex and useRs, > > The purpose of the survey has been mentioned on the survey link > goo.gl/jw1ig > but I will also reproduce it here. > - Geographical distribution of R users > - Application areas where R is being used > - Supporting technology being used along with R > - Academic background distribution of R users > > The potential personally identifiable information such as name and employer > name are optional fields. Actually all the fields in the survey are > optional. > > Some of the analysis output(s) could be along the lines of :- > - Usage statistics of various R packages > - Distribution of R users across countries/cities > - Mapping various applications to packages > - Text Mining of the responses to create informative word clouds > > Personally, I am excited about the kind of data I will receive through this > survey and the various insights that could be derived. As already > mentioned, > the results will be shared with the community. > > Thank you Rex for raising an important point. It is indeed necessary for me > to personally assure the user community that the results will be shared in > a > manner that will not contain any personally identifiable information. > > Those who wish to gain access to the raw data will be provided with all the > fields but not the name and employer name fields. > > Just out of curiosity : It is possible to get name, employer name, > location, > usage information and academic background details when searching for R > users > on LinkedIn and the many R related groups there. > Does this also provide potential opportunities for misuse and "outrageous" > analyses, since almost anyone can get onto LinkedIn and access user > profiles > ? > > Thank you for your interest and support. > Regards, > Harsh > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:02 PM, <rex.dw...@syngenta.com> wrote: > > > Harsh, "Suitably analyzed" for whose purposes? One man's "suitable" is > > another's "outrageous". That's why people want to see the gowns at the > > Oscars. Under what auspices are you conducting this survey? What do you > > intend to do with it? You don't give any assurance that the results you > > post won't have personally identifiable information. I don't get the > > impression that you know much about survey design. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > > On Behalf Of Harsh > > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:53 AM > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] R usage survey > > > > Hi R users, > > I request members of the R community to consider filling a short survey > > regarding the use of R. > > The survey can be found at http://goo.gl/jw1ig > > > > Please accept my apologies for posting here for a non-technical reason. > > > > The data collected will be suitably analyzed and I'll post a link to the > > results in the coming weeks. > > > > Thank you all for your interest and for sharing your R usage information. > > > > Regards, > > Harsh Singhal > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > > > message may contain confidential information. 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