# Timeline Freshness

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/timeline-freshness/533>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [December 30, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/timeline-freshness/533 "2019-12-30T23:51:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![burrrata](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/burrrata/32/135_2.png) [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/timeline-freshness/533/1 "2019-12-30T23:51:30Z")

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At the time of posting the [Cred Timeline](https://sourcecred.io/cred/timeline/@sourcecred/) showed that I had 13.6% of Cred, but the [week 15 data](https://observablehq.com/@decentralion/credsperiment-week-15) (which was just released) only shows 11.8%. Is this because the Week 15 page only reflects data up to a certain point in the past, but the timeline data is fresher? Also, how often is the timeline data/chart updated?

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**Author:** ![decentralion](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/decentralion/32/7_2.png) [@decentralion](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/decentralion)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/timeline-freshness/533/2 "2019-12-31T00:20:57Z")

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Cred is calculated on week-long intervals. The Cred Timeline shows an incomplete interval, which is why it basically always shows a cred downturn in the most recent week… that most recent week is only 1/7th finished\*. The cred payout is only based on completed weeks.

We can see this explicitly by comparing the numbers on the second-to-last week on the UI…

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/sourcecred1/original/1X/5d8f0b329ce964676f7e856bec79c592c3c5e8e7.png)

to the “weekly cred” column in the notebook:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/sourcecred1/original/1X/11261c41386b7b052c31aa02512ae63021e56632.png)

The timeline data is updated every week, when I do the weekly payouts (usually monday). Currently it’s a manual process that I run by hand. We should aim to automate this (and update more regularly). Also, we should update the frontend so it is more clear that the most recent data point is an “incomplete week”.

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**Author:** ![burrrata](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/burrrata/32/135_2.png) [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/timeline-freshness/533/3 "2019-12-31T00:27:34Z")

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Cool. Created a thread in #Initiatives Wish List for this:

> [@Autoamted Cred Timeline Graph Computation](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/autoamted-cred-timeline-graph-computation/536):
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> Inspired by the [https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/timeline-freshness/533](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/timeline-freshness/533) thread. Currently the [Cred Timeline](https://sourcecred.io/cred/timeline/@sourcecred/) is updated manually once a week when [TBD](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/tbd-temporary-benevolent-dictator/376) [measures Cred and Grain](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/sourcecred-contributor-payouts/298). It would be awesome if the Cred graph could be set to run automatically so that anyone checking it gets an up to date view of SourceCred’s Cred graph. This would be great for new community members to instantly see the results of their contributions slight_smile