Heavy Users Dataset - Available Now!

Saptarshi Guha sguha at mozilla.com
Thu Oct 5 13:22:34 UTC 2017


Lovely news. Thanks for your efforts on this
Regards
Saptarshi

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Alessio Placitelli <aplacitelli at mozilla.com
> wrote:

> Great job Frank!
>
> 2017-10-05 5:50 GMT+02:00 Frank Bertsch <fbertsch at mozilla.com>:
>
>> All -
>>
>> After much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, the heavy_users
>> dataset is available. It is one-row per client-day, where day is
>> submission_date. A client has a row for a specific submission_date if they
>> were active at all in the 28 day window ending on that submission_date.
>> How to use it:
>>
>> In Spark: `spark.read.parquet("s3://telemetry-parquet/heavy_users/v1")
>>
>> In SQL: "SELECT * FROM heavy_users"
>>
>> Below are a few example queries for you to peruse.
>>
>> https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/47041/source#127382 - *Joined
>> with main_summary* to get distribution of max_concurrent_tab_count for
>> heavy vs. non-heavy users
>>
>> https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/47044/source#127385 - *Joined
>> with longitudinal* to get crash rates for heavy vs. non-heavy users
>>
>> You'll note that it seems that heavy_users use more tabs, but crash less.
>> These results probably require more investigation.
>> What is it?
>>
>> A user is a heavy_user as of day N if, for the 28 day period ending on
>> day N, the sum of their active_ticks is in the 90th percentile (or above)
>> of all clients during that period. For more analysis on this, and a
>> discussion of new profiles, see https://metrics.mozilla.com/pr
>> otected/sguha/heavy/heavycutoffs5.html.
>>
>> Please note a few caveats:
>>
>> 0. Data starts at 20170801. There is technically data in the table before
>> this, but heavy_user is NULL for those dates because it needed to bootstrap
>> the first 28 day window.
>>
>> 1. Because it is top 10% for each 28 day period, and single
>> submission_date has more than 10% of clients be considered heavy_users.
>> This is because heavy_users, on average, use Firefox on more days than
>> non-heavy users.
>>
>> 2. Each day has a separate, but related, set of heavy_users. Initial
>> investigations show that ~97.5% of heavy_user as of a certain day are still
>> considered heavy_users as of the next day.
>>
>> -Frank
>>
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