Unidata User Support by Package

Unidata User Support

Tom Yoksas
August 25, 2006

Unidata User Support Inquiry Metrics

Support for Last Year and Each quarter

Above are histograms that portray the number of Unidata email responses for individual topics of support for a one year period ending August 23, 2005. The histograms are arranged by yearly activity averages with the highest on the left and lowest on the right. Each quarter year within the period is depicted from oldest to newest from left to right. The number of responses has been normalized to weekly averages so that the support load over the various periods can be easily compared.

Total support averaged 148 responses/week over the entire year; 149 for the first quarter; 140 for the second quarter; 157 for the third quarter; and 164 for the current quarter.

Comments

Some tentative conclusions: Note:

These numbers and conclusions should not be taken too literally, for several reasons:

by Tom Yoksas