It has also resolved some uncertainties which helps with my motivation.
Curious if you are willing to share, what were the uncertainties?
I would like to see more of this sort of monitoring in the future. Do you plan to do a similar analysis next year?
Thanks! I was initially thinking of this project as a one-off piece for a specific timely event. It’s possible we’ll conduct another analysis next year, but I think that will depend a lot on my capacity and priorities at the time. But FWIW, some of this data is public and ~live if you ever need to see it, e.g. this dashboard on CEA program metrics is updated every month.
My uncertainties were mainly related to questions like how FTX had affected the trajectory of the community, size of pledge programs, and growth of AI relative to other areas of EA. But also around broader community understanding, like which programs are bigger, growing faster, better to recommend people to etc.
Thanks, I didn’t know about the dashboard or had forgotten about it. Very helpful.
Short of doing something like this again, a simple annual post that reminds people this dashboard exists a and summarises what it has/shows, could get a lot of the value of the bigger analysis with a lot less effort. I imagine that a lot of people don’t know about the dashboard and a lot of new people won’t know next year.
Thanks for the feedback!
Curious if you are willing to share, what were the uncertainties?
Thanks! I was initially thinking of this project as a one-off piece for a specific timely event. It’s possible we’ll conduct another analysis next year, but I think that will depend a lot on my capacity and priorities at the time. But FWIW, some of this data is public and ~live if you ever need to see it, e.g. this dashboard on CEA program metrics is updated every month.
My uncertainties were mainly related to questions like how FTX had affected the trajectory of the community, size of pledge programs, and growth of AI relative to other areas of EA. But also around broader community understanding, like which programs are bigger, growing faster, better to recommend people to etc.
Thanks, I didn’t know about the dashboard or had forgotten about it. Very helpful.
Short of doing something like this again, a simple annual post that reminds people this dashboard exists a and summarises what it has/shows, could get a lot of the value of the bigger analysis with a lot less effort. I imagine that a lot of people don’t know about the dashboard and a lot of new people won’t know next year.