Contributor Diversity

Question: What is the organizational diversity of contributions?

Organizational diversity expresses how many different organizations are involved in a project and how involved different organizations are compared to one another.

Objectives

• Get a list of organizations contributing to a project.
• See the percentage of contributions from each organization within a defined period of time.
• See the change of composition of organizations within a defined period of time.
• Get a list of people that are associated with each organization.

Implementation

• Collect data from data sources where contributions occur.
• Identify contributor affiliations to get a good estimate of which organizations they belong to.
• Correlate information about contributions, assigning each to appropriate organization.
• Depending on the needs of the project, you may want to consider such issues as how to handle multiple email addresses, affiliation changes over time, or contractor vs. employee.

Visualization

• Add a sample visualization to any GrimoreLab Kibiter dashboard following these instructions:
  • Create a new Pie chart
    • Select the all_onion index
    • Metrics Slice Size: Sum Aggregation, contributions Field, Contributions Custom Label
    • Buckets Split Slices: Terms Aggregation, author_or_name Field, metric: Contributions Order By, Descending Order, 500 Size, Organization Custom Label
  • Example Screenshot

  

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