For the data from the CEA dashboard, could you please update your top level comment to make clear which metrics you are pasting graphs of? (Total views on the EffectiveAltruism.org home and intro pages (per month), Overall EA Newsletter subscriber count (at the start of each month)).
Thanks for your broader feedback. Making sure all the data in this public post was double checked / had good reasoning transparency took a bunch of time, so I opted to include only the timeframe that seemed most informative to readers. (It’s possible this was a mistake, which I’ll come back to if we revisit this project!)
FWIW I think a bunch of the historical data across projects is also not straightforward to interpret: I expect 2020 was a super weird year for many projects because of COVID, and the <=2019 data across projects is so far back in the past I’m just not sure how informative it is for the modern day.
For the data from the CEA dashboard, could you please update your top level comment to make clear which metrics you are pasting graphs of? (Total views on the EffectiveAltruism.org home and intro pages (per month), Overall EA Newsletter subscriber count (at the start of each month)).
Sorry! Done.
I expect 2020 was a super weird year for many projects because of COVID
On the other hand, it might be interesting to see whether there were any important changes caused by COVID, besides the direct ones of having less in-person events like EAGs and EAGxs. If the median EA view about AI and bio is right, I guess we may have weirder years than COVID in the next decades too.
<=2019 data across projects is so far back in the past I’m just not sure how informative it is for the modern day
Fair point. I think it would still be informative in some cases.
Thanks Vasco!
For the data from the CEA dashboard, could you please update your top level comment to make clear which metrics you are pasting graphs of? (Total views on the EffectiveAltruism.org home and intro pages (per month), Overall EA Newsletter subscriber count (at the start of each month)).
Thanks for your broader feedback. Making sure all the data in this public post was double checked / had good reasoning transparency took a bunch of time, so I opted to include only the timeframe that seemed most informative to readers. (It’s possible this was a mistake, which I’ll come back to if we revisit this project!)
FWIW I think a bunch of the historical data across projects is also not straightforward to interpret: I expect 2020 was a super weird year for many projects because of COVID, and the <=2019 data across projects is so far back in the past I’m just not sure how informative it is for the modern day.
Sorry! Done.
On the other hand, it might be interesting to see whether there were any important changes caused by COVID, besides the direct ones of having less in-person events like EAGs and EAGxs. If the median EA view about AI and bio is right, I guess we may have weirder years than COVID in the next decades too.
Fair point. I think it would still be informative in some cases.