Ideas

Data Science

• At the end of each season (or throughout) we can publish all the data with some graphs in an easily digestible format that enable badgeholders to see the answers to each question and preferences from each group of stakeholders based upon the Respect and the answers to each question
• Can snapshot data be easily displayed like this even though it’s offchain or would a tool like jokerace or tally be better suites so that people could use tools like Dune and Open Source Observer to parse/display the data?

Inspiration

Carl

As verifiable impact metrics begin to play a greater role in the round design and voting mechanism, we'd like to see more citizens assume the role of “impact data scientists”. These are people who search the data for signals, good and bad. They track the impact of funding deployed across the ecosystem and propose models that aim to maximize impact per unit spent.

With Open Source Observer, our mission is to create a “people’s data warehouse” for performing this type of work. We are un-opinionated about the form of impact but highly opinionated about the quality of the data backing it - and how easy it should be to access that data as a public good.

If we are successful, then we hope to give OP badgeholders more data and impact metrics to work with in future Retro Funding rounds. We also hope to inspire more analysts to work on this problem because it’s a hard one and because we think there needs to be a plurality of impact models.