I’m sharing a proposal that Reid Priedhorsky and his collaborators at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently submitted to the Wikimedia Analytics Team aimed at producing privacy-preserving geo-aggregates of Wikipedia pageview data dumps and making them available to the public and the research community. [1]
Reid and his team spearheaded the use of the public Wikipedia pageview dumps to monitor and forecast the spread of influenza and other diseases, using language as a proxy for location. This proposal describes an aggregation strategy adding a geographical dimension to the existing dumps.
Feedback on the proposal is welcome on the lists or the project talk page on Meta [3]
Dario
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Geo-aggregation_of_Wikipedia_pagevi... [2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003892 [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Geo-aggregation_of_Wikipedia_p...