Community Engagement Metrics

Requirements Clarification & Assessment

1. Objective Understanding:

   • The primary goal is to evaluate community engagement and activity metrics on Stack Overflow.
   • Focus on user interactions such as posting questions, answering, commenting, and voting.

2. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

   • Identify metrics that reflect the community's health and engagement levels.
   • Consider the time dimension to track trends and patterns over time.

3. Data Source:

   • Utilize the post_analytics table.
   • Key columns include id, user_id, created_at, comment_count, view_count, answer_count, upvotes.

4. Contextual Background:

   • Stack Overflow's success is measured by the variety and quality of questions and answers.
   • User engagement is critical, reflected by active participation and content interaction.

5. Constraints & Assumptions:

   • Assume weekly patterns for user activity.
   • Consider aggregate metrics for a comprehensive view of engagement.

6. Desired Outcome:

   • Develop three metrics to monitor community engagement effectively.
   • Formulate SQL queries to extract these metrics from the data.