Cred Analysis Notebooks

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@decentralion

a great starting point for new contributors. Please give a shoutout if you’d like to help.

I’d like to help! Mostly because I’d like an entry point to deeply understand how the SourceCred protocol works, and also because making Cred Analysis Notebooks easier for people to use will help us design, model, document, and improve the CredSperiment.

@decentralion

we’ve only scratched the surface of what we could do with notebooks. We could use them to build whole new explorations or deep dives into SourceCred scores themselves. Here are a few concrete examples:

• Person<->Person cred flow analysis: For each user in SourceCred, run SourceCred treating that person as the “seed node”. See how the cred distributes across other users. This will show which people are collaborating and endorsing each other, and whether some people are acting as “cred sinks” or “cred black holes”.
• Initiative-scoped cred: For a given initiative, treat that initiative as a seed, and see who has cred in the initiative.
• Reverse-initiative scoped cred: For any given person, back out which initiatives give them cred.

Awesome! Really curious to explore this. Besides just diving in, is there a recommended way to get started on this? Also, if I spend a few days noodling around with the notebooks could we then hop on a call to discuss and explore questions?

@decentralion

Dependencies:

• Splitting code into modules
• Publish SourceCred on NPM

Are these required before work on this Initiative can begin, or just before the Initiative can achieve it’s full potential?