I have some “I would like a pony”-style feature requests below, so I’ll put my less ambitious suggestion at the start: Randomise the order of the names in the donations list (perhaps allowing an alphabetical sort), re-randomising each time someone visits the page. It’s not going to be a website many of us visit regularly, but it’d be more fun if each time we went there, we saw different people’s donations and plans.
I’m a little underwhelmed by the registry as it stands. The past donations are just page after page of aggregate donation totals and charity lists, presented in some fixed but strange order (ordered by when the people took the survey perhaps?). I’d like to see (while being aware that this is somewhere between annoyingly difficult and not worth the effort):
A sortable and filterable table of past donations
Recent donations (i.e., the ’2013 donations’ or ‘2014 donations’) separated by charity. So, e.g, 1000 USD to AMF, 1000 USD to SCI, 100 USD to CEA.
I’d like to see the donation registry as something you could use to measure where EA donations are going and how much is being donated (only the self-selecting fillers-out-of-surveys people are going to be counted, but it’d still be interesting to me).
With all the free-form text inputs, getting the data cleaned to the point where you could sort/filer it would take a bit of ongoing work (I’d be happy to volunteer to do this data cleaning). And having donation amounts for individual charities means a re-writing of that part of the survey, and probably not as many responses. So I’m not holding my breath! But these are features that are in my imagined ideal EA donations register.
I’ll put my less ambitious suggestion at the start: Randomise the order of the names in the donations list (perhaps allowing an alphabetical sort), re-randomising each time someone visits the page. It’s not going to be a website many of us visit regularly, but it’d be more fun if each time we went there, we saw different people’s donations and plans.
This is a good idea, I’ll likely do that. The EA Profiles allow that sorting, so it wouldn’t take that long to apply it to the registry.
The past donations are just page after page of aggregate donation totals and charity lists, presented in some fixed but strange order (ordered by when the people took the survey perhaps?).
Yes, Peter Hurford and I have talked about how we could present this better. The order’s arbitrary, and comes from the order in which I created entries—e.g. I added Peter Singer and Jim Greenbaum’s early on, because I found them so interesting/inspiring, and so they went to the top.
A sortable and filterable table of past donations
Good idea, I’ll add this.
Recent donations (i.e., the ’2013 donations’ or ‘2014 donations’) separated by charity. So, e.g, 1000 USD to AMF, 1000 USD to SCI, 100 USD to CEA.
I’ll try to add this too.
I’d like to see the donation registry as something you could use to measure where EA donations are going and how much is being donated (only the self-selecting fillers-out-of-surveys people are going to be counted, but it’d still be interesting to me).
Yep, that would be a good use for it. Hopefully many of those who donate significant amounts will be the sort of people who self-select.
With all the free-form text inputs, getting the data cleaned to the point where you could sort/filer it would take a bit of ongoing work (I’d be happy to volunteer to do this data cleaning).
David Moss has already done a bit of work on this, but that’s a kind offer and I may get in touch with you.
With all the free-form text inputs, getting the data cleaned to the point where you could sort/filer it would take a bit of ongoing work (I’d be happy to volunteer to do this data cleaning).
David Moss has already done a bit of work on this, but that’s a kind offer and I may get in touch with you.
Depending on how much you, pappubahry, and David Moss value your time, it would be better to do this data cleaning via Mechanical Turk, where someone will do it for minimum wage.
Also, I’ve already converted all the donations into USD if you’re interested in standardizing that.
I’ll put my less ambitious suggestion at the start: Randomise the order of the names in the donations list (perhaps allowing an alphabetical sort), re-randomising each time someone visits the page. It’s not going to be a website many of us visit regularly, but it’d be more fun if each time we went there, we saw different people’s donations and plans.
I have some “I would like a pony”-style feature requests below, so I’ll put my less ambitious suggestion at the start: Randomise the order of the names in the donations list (perhaps allowing an alphabetical sort), re-randomising each time someone visits the page. It’s not going to be a website many of us visit regularly, but it’d be more fun if each time we went there, we saw different people’s donations and plans.
I’m a little underwhelmed by the registry as it stands. The past donations are just page after page of aggregate donation totals and charity lists, presented in some fixed but strange order (ordered by when the people took the survey perhaps?). I’d like to see (while being aware that this is somewhere between annoyingly difficult and not worth the effort):
A sortable and filterable table of past donations
Recent donations (i.e., the ’2013 donations’ or ‘2014 donations’) separated by charity. So, e.g, 1000 USD to AMF, 1000 USD to SCI, 100 USD to CEA.
I’d like to see the donation registry as something you could use to measure where EA donations are going and how much is being donated (only the self-selecting fillers-out-of-surveys people are going to be counted, but it’d still be interesting to me).
With all the free-form text inputs, getting the data cleaned to the point where you could sort/filer it would take a bit of ongoing work (I’d be happy to volunteer to do this data cleaning). And having donation amounts for individual charities means a re-writing of that part of the survey, and probably not as many responses. So I’m not holding my breath! But these are features that are in my imagined ideal EA donations register.
Thanks for the suggestions!
This is a good idea, I’ll likely do that. The EA Profiles allow that sorting, so it wouldn’t take that long to apply it to the registry.
Yes, Peter Hurford and I have talked about how we could present this better. The order’s arbitrary, and comes from the order in which I created entries—e.g. I added Peter Singer and Jim Greenbaum’s early on, because I found them so interesting/inspiring, and so they went to the top.
Good idea, I’ll add this.
I’ll try to add this too.
Yep, that would be a good use for it. Hopefully many of those who donate significant amounts will be the sort of people who self-select.
David Moss has already done a bit of work on this, but that’s a kind offer and I may get in touch with you.
I really like Data tables which I use in the Job Board.
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Depending on how much you, pappubahry, and David Moss value your time, it would be better to do this data cleaning via Mechanical Turk, where someone will do it for minimum wage.
Also, I’ve already converted all the donations into USD if you’re interested in standardizing that.
I’ve just created full alphabetical lists of everyone with public donation plans and past donations.