The activity data synthesis site is now live at: http://www.activitydata.org Cross-referenced links across all the Activity Data projects with general lessons and guides  given. A direct link to the Access Grid  data is at http://www.activitydata.org/AGtivity.html

Planned is a video conference of a show-and-tell of visualisations and results from the JISC Activity Data analysis for the Access Grid Video Conference usage. This clarifies video confereneing room utlisation, comparisons with booking system and ability to measure CO2 savings. If you wish a Past Diary of your Access Grid physical space or virtual [...]

A question came out as to what a year of AG events in the UK looks like. The following two graphs show those meetings run through the ‘AG Collaboration’ services managed by JANET(UK): mainly for IOCOM events. The graphs show meetings involving multiple sites, that lasted more than a couple of minutes but less than [...]

New AG Specialist Projects leaflet launched at the e-Science All Hands Meeting in York.  

Some little tid bits of useful information that we came across worked out during the development of this project. Most of them about handling timestamps between UNIX, GNUplot and Excel. UNIX Time Converting between UNIX time and something readable using the UNIX date command: date –date=@123456789 date –date=”4 Jan 1982″ +”%s” Excel Time This is [...]

This is an ALT-C (Association for Learning and Teaching) 2011 Pre-Conference Workshop on Improving processes by using activity data based from the results of the JISC Activity data results. From the description on their website the aims of the workshop are to: “Enable you to identify the potential benefits of making use of the activity [...]

A picture of the architecture that we ended up using in the implementation of AGtivity is shown below: This architecture diagram was asked to be sketched, scanned and forwarded; but also placed here for further dissemination.  

AGTivity Project Items and Points Items produced: Four Use Case Studies to try and answer the Hypothesis questions; Analysis of  two Physical Room Nodes: A Tale of Two Rooms Analysis of the Virtual Test Rooms: Testing, Testing, Testing Cross-correlation of booking verses the actuality: To Book or Not To Book Carbon savings: CO2 – loads [...]

Case Study 4: CO2 – loads of it One of the continual requests we have when considering the use and analysis of the activity of video conferencing sessions is to clarify and quantify the CO2 savings. This is a lot harder than initially considered as often meetings may be planned to be regular, but some [...]

This session was a visualization exploration presentation by Tony Hirst and very worth listing to:. http://blog.activitydata.org/2011/07/online-exchange-4-event-recording-21.html I managed to only see/hear live the last half of the presentation, due to graduation ceremonies and have now explored the first half from the recording playback. Quality of audio was mixed – should record at a higher rate. [...]