[tor-bugs] #10218 [Tor]: Provide "users-per-transport-per-country" statistics for obfsbridges

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#10218: Provide "users-per-transport-per-country" statistics for obfsbridges
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 Reporter:  asn                                  |          Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                          |  joelanders
 Priority:  Medium                               |         Status:
Component:  Tor                                  |  assigned
 Severity:  Normal                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
 Keywords:  tor-bridge tor-pt bridgedb-dist      |  0.2.8.x-final
  028-triage                                     |        Version:
Parent ID:                                       |     Resolution:
  Sponsor:                                       |  Actual Points:
                                                 |         Points:  medium
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Comment (by dcf):

 Replying to [comment:23 karsten]:
 > Is it easy for you to re-run the analysis with more data?  I just
 uploaded some more
 [https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/merged-2016-02.csv.xz
 data from February 1 to around February 12] that I already had around
 here.  And I could extract more data from the database if you think it
 would be useful.  Just let me know how many weeks or months you can
 process, and I'll get the data for you.  Who knows, maybe this approach
 works much better or much worse for February 1, 2016 than for other days.

 I edited the script to handle multiple days: attachment:ptcc-time.R. The
 heavy bars show the lower and upper bounds as before. The connecting lines
 go through the middle of the bars.

 I limited these graphs to 6 countries. It took about 1 minute to run on
 merged-2016-02.csv.xz. If I did not limit the countries, it would take up
 about 75% of my RAM and take a long time (I didn't wait for it to finish).
 I suspect it's because of the giant `expand.grid` the code does with all
 combinations of date, country, and transport. Handling more bulk data will
 probably require a cleverer approach.

 == obfs3 ==

 [[Image(ptcc-time-obfs3.png)]]

 == meek ==

 [[Image(ptcc-time-meek.png)]]

 == fte ==

 [[Image(ptcc-time-fte.png)]]

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