Cool project! I’m impressed by the thoroughness of the lists.
This will take a lot of ongoing attention to keep up-to-date. Are you planning to do list maintenance as ongoing volunteer work? Are you intending to seek funding for ongoing maintenance?
Also, who do you have in mind as your intended customer?
So far almost all DLW work by me has been contract work paid by Vipul, and my guess is it will stay like this for the foreseeable future. We have not sought other sources of funding, but are interested in receiving funding (for my ongoing work).
As mentioned in the post, the intended audience is something like “people who think about effective giving, flow of money in the non-profit world, real-world decision making, and similar topics”. To give some examples:
Ryan Carey has a GitHub repository with data analysis of Open Phil’s grants data. (Last updated 2018-02-11.)
Here is another example, but part of a closed Facebook group so I won’t describe it. (Probably last updated around 2018-01-14.)
Michael Dickens wrote a post entitled “Where Some People Donated in 2017” recording where some EA and EA-peripheral people donated. (Last updated 2018-02-14.)
In June 2017, there was a Facebook event called “What’s Up With the Open Philanthropy Project?” The event looked at some of Open Phil’s work, compiling some documents about some of Open Phil’s grants in the process. Looking at the timestamps, I think the Google Docs were created when the meetup began, and were filled in during the course of the meetup. (Last updated 2017-06-09.)
I think in all the above cases, either the current version of DLW or an improved version in the future performs a superset of the data collection/analysis, is continually updated, and provides a single location for all the data and analysis.
Vipul has also made comments (1, 2) and at least one post using in part data collected by DLW, to make observations or answer people’s questions.
I’ve found the service to be pretty valuable so far, though mainly for keeping track of OpenPhil. I have funded $645 of work on this (via Vipul to Issa) so far.
Cool project! I’m impressed by the thoroughness of the lists.
This will take a lot of ongoing attention to keep up-to-date. Are you planning to do list maintenance as ongoing volunteer work? Are you intending to seek funding for ongoing maintenance?
Also, who do you have in mind as your intended customer?
So far almost all DLW work by me has been contract work paid by Vipul, and my guess is it will stay like this for the foreseeable future. We have not sought other sources of funding, but are interested in receiving funding (for my ongoing work).
As mentioned in the post, the intended audience is something like “people who think about effective giving, flow of money in the non-profit world, real-world decision making, and similar topics”. To give some examples:
Ryan Carey has a GitHub repository with data analysis of Open Phil’s grants data. (Last updated 2018-02-11.)
Here is another example, but part of a closed Facebook group so I won’t describe it. (Probably last updated around 2018-01-14.)
Michael Dickens wrote a post entitled “Where Some People Donated in 2017” recording where some EA and EA-peripheral people donated. (Last updated 2018-02-14.)
In June 2017, there was a Facebook event called “What’s Up With the Open Philanthropy Project?” The event looked at some of Open Phil’s work, compiling some documents about some of Open Phil’s grants in the process. Looking at the timestamps, I think the Google Docs were created when the meetup began, and were filled in during the course of the meetup. (Last updated 2017-06-09.)
I think in all the above cases, either the current version of DLW or an improved version in the future performs a superset of the data collection/analysis, is continually updated, and provides a single location for all the data and analysis.
Vipul has also made comments (1, 2) and at least one post using in part data collected by DLW, to make observations or answer people’s questions.
I’ve found the service to be pretty valuable so far, though mainly for keeping track of OpenPhil. I have funded $645 of work on this (via Vipul to Issa) so far.