File this under "things I wished I'd started doing a long time ago", but we began collecting usage data from Summon a few months back, using a modified version of Matthew Reidsma's Summon-Stats script. In that time, we've built up a log of just over 310,000 user transactions from Summon searches for around 160,000 distinct [...]
Posts under ‘Usage Data’
The Magic Microphone and the Horrible Headphones
A while back, I had a daft idea to try and use all of the library circulation and graduate attainment data to pinpoint which books were the ones most likely to be borrowed by high achieving students, as I thought it might be fun to highlight those on the OPAC — after all, if you [...]
More "stuff like this"…
Just a little follow on from the previous blog post… Spurred on by comments from Lisa, I'm exploring if we can filter the recommendations so that they become more relevant to students in a specific academic school, or even to students on a specific course, and the initial results look fairly promising Let's look at [...]
"People who looked at this thing, also looked at this stuff…"
We've had serendipity suggestions on the OPAC for nearly 7 years now, but they've been based entirely around the physical collection in the library. After Friday's Skype chat to the SPLURGE Hackfest, I got to thinking about how we can hook the e-stuff into the recommendations, so I've spent the weekend gathering data from our [...]
5 years of book loans and grades (revisited)
Nigel's comment on the "5 years of book loans and grades" post reminded me that I did do a breakdown by discipline of the same data. One of the caveats with this is that it represents nearly a decade's worth of usage and, during that time, the seven academic schools at Huddersfield have changed — [...]
CILIP Cymru Conference
I'm journeying down to Llandrindod Wells tomorrow to give a presentation about usage data to the Welsh Libraries, Archives and Museums Conference (hashtag #cilipw11). I've been promised that there'll be real ale there You can grab a draft copy of my presentation ("If you want to get laid, go to college…") from here (15MB). The [...]
5 years of book loans and grades
I'm just starting to pull our data out for the JISC Library Impact Data Project and I thought it might be interesting to look at 5 years of grades and book loans. Unfortunately, our e-resource usage data and our library visits data only goes back as far as 2005, but our book loan data goes [...]
Sliding down the long tail
At a recent event in Edinburgh, I was asked about how we generate the "people who borrowed this, also borrowed…" suggestions in our OPAC and whether or not there are privacy issues with generating them. Last week, I popped over to Manchester for a meeting of the JISC funded SALT (Surfacing the Academic Long Tail), [...]
JISC Activity Data Programme
I'm chuffed to bits that the Library Impact Data bid that Huddersfield submitted, along with 7 project partner institutions, was one of the successful ones in the JISC Activity Data Programme and the project will kick off on Tuesday this week! … the aim of this project is to prove a statistically significant correlation between [...]
Course level journal article feed
Following on from the last blog post, I've done some coding to see how well (or not!) a course level new journal article feed might work. The process behind the code is… for a given course, identify the most frequently accessed journal titles use JournalTOCs to fetch the latest articles from each journal's RSS feed [...]