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Below you'll find the highlights of Tor metrics team work done in November 2018 as well as a few expected highlights for the current month, December 2018.

On behalf of the Tor metrics team, Karsten

November 2018:

Evaluated a number of frameworks that could help to reduce code maintenance costs. A number of features have been added to stem to support this work. The results of the evaluation are to be published in an upcoming tech report.

Split up metrics-web's legacy module into more maintainable parts [1].

[1] https://bugs.torproject.org/28116

Released Onionoo 7.0-1.19.1 [2] that updates to MaxMind's GeoLite2 format for the ASN database [3].

[2] https://dist.torproject.org/onionoo/7.0-1.19.1/ [3] https://bugs.torproject.org/28254

Prepared new graphs on relays by country for a possible metrics-team blog post for Tor's end of year campaign.

Reviewed first bunch of applications for the third full-time member of the metrics team [4].

[4] https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-metrics-data-architect.html

December 2018:

Continue to evaluate frameworks for use in a CollecTor replacement and implement a prototype replacement [5].

[5] https://github.com/irl/bushel

Deploy changes to the Total consensus weights across bandwidth authorities graph [6] with another line for the consensus [7] and with all lines showing only relays with the Running flag in their respective consensus or vote [8].

[6] https://metrics.torproject.org/totalcw.html [7] https://bugs.torproject.org/28352 [8] https://bugs.torproject.org/28137

Combine two bandwidth graphs by relay flag and switch to a better visualization using stacked area charts [9].

[9] https://bugs.torproject.org/28353

Tweak OnionPerf graphs by showing all measurements at once and therefore removing the combined all-sources lines [10].

[10] https://bugs.torproject.org/28603

Write blog post for Tor's end of year campaign.