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[algodave]

@lmerriam Can you provide a definition for "number of users" so that I know how to compute it? I looked at the old app's code but I couldn't understand what does that count mean. Thanks

[lmerriam]

@algodave that refers to the number of users who have at some point used the trackable. If it's in the history of their check-ins we'd count them.

[algodave]

@lmerriam OK I got it. Computation is challenging, I need to think a smart and efficient way to do that ;-)

[algodave]

@lmerriam Sorry but I'm puzzling on this: if a user uses a trackable in a lot of checkins, even in non-adjacent periods of time, does that anyways count as 1 right?

[lmerriam]

Exactly, it's just the count of users who have tracked that trackable at some point.

[algodave]

@lmerriam Great thanks

[algodave]

@lmerriam Puzzling again sorry! When you say tracked do you mean they added it to checkin when it was today's checkin only? Or do you also want to update counts when users go to a checkin in the past and add/remove trackables?

[lmerriam]

Yes that should update it as well, if they have it in their history we should count them

[algodave]

@lmerriam This is now complete, you can double-check on the live app.
I've run a task on Production env to update all trackable counts per user based on all historic data.

One bonus side-effect we have with the implementation I made is that we keep a count of how many times any given trackable appears in each user's checkins. Perhaps this information might be useful from a data science standpoint as well?