Fixing the mybinder.org usage analytics archive

[choldgraf]

To do

• Post blog post
• Note it on social media

What happened

• We discovered that archive.analytics.mybinder.org was down when trying to update the hub.jupyter.org/binder-data dashboards
• Yuvi identified what was going wrong and issued a fix here: Stop using intermediate files in analytics publisher jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy#3462

Why is it valuable

• The analytics archive is a public resource that helps others learn how Binder is used and across which communities and domains
• It is also a key way that Binder can demonstrate its own impact and use
• By fixing it, we ensure this data continues to be published

Links to learn more

• PR with the fix: Stop using intermediate files in analytics publisher jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy#3462
• Dashboards that use this data: hub.jupyter.org/binder-data
• Repository that includes a daily published version of this data: https://github.com/jupyterhub/binder-data

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Acknowledgements

[yuvipanda]

Let's note that the design of this was nice too so that while the publishing was failing, the data was preserved.