I believe the community should assign responsibility to, and funding for, one or more people or organizations to conduct and disseminate this sort of high-level analysis of community growth metrics. I honestly find it baffling that measuring the growth of EA and reporting findings back to the community isn’t someone’s explicit job…
It seems obvious to me that numerous stakeholders—including organization leaders, donors of all sizes, group leaders, and entrepreneurs—would all benefit from having an accurate understanding of EA’s growth trajectory. And it seems just as obvious that it would be tremendously inefficient for each of those parties to conduct their own analysis. It would be in everyone’s interest to receive a regular (every 3-6 months?) update from a reliable analyst.
I strongly agree with these comments, and strongly agreed with your previous statement.
Re. the dashboard data: if the raw data is available, I think it would be valuable to conduct some formal time series analyses. This would help assess whether there are meaningful declines at particular time points (taking into account trends, seasonal variation, random fluctuations etc.). We’ve previously conducted private analyses of this kind, though not in an FTX-related context.
I wholeheartedly endorse a more rigorous analysis of the data, I just didn’t have the capacity or capability to undertake that. The EA Funds dashboard allows users to export the raw data. The CEA dashboard doesn’t, though I assume CEA could provide the raw data without too much hassle (and hopefully they’ll add an export functionality).
Many thanks for collating this data!
I strongly agree with these comments, and strongly agreed with your previous statement.
Re. the dashboard data: if the raw data is available, I think it would be valuable to conduct some formal time series analyses. This would help assess whether there are meaningful declines at particular time points (taking into account trends, seasonal variation, random fluctuations etc.). We’ve previously conducted private analyses of this kind, though not in an FTX-related context.
I wholeheartedly endorse a more rigorous analysis of the data, I just didn’t have the capacity or capability to undertake that. The EA Funds dashboard allows users to export the raw data. The CEA dashboard doesn’t, though I assume CEA could provide the raw data without too much hassle (and hopefully they’ll add an export functionality).
Thanks for the nudge! By the way, we’ve now created a process for users to request access to our data — more details here.
That’s great, thanks!