User surveys

[alimanfoo]

Issue to discuss user surveys.

[alimanfoo]

Suggested by @Carreau.

[Carreau]

Thanks @alimanfoo,

This is following the community call and in particular the discussion about "SingleFile" zarr, what the usage/user base of Zarr is.

I'm suggesting to start small user survey in order to build expectation of such user survey among the Zarr Silent Majority to have a sens to send a signal, and gave them a chance to send this survey around.

Here some ideas of what question could be sent.

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• How long have you been using Zarr for

  • ( ) more than a year
  • ( ) about a year
  • ( ) a few weeks
  • ( ) what is zarr ?

• In which Domains do you use Zarr

  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Physics
  • CS
  • Astronomy
  • Earth science
  • complete list from – for example – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic_disciplines
  • Fun
  • Other .... (precise)

• Which kind of store(s) are you primarily using.

  • Directory based
  • Single File based
  • Database Based
  • In Memory
  • Not sure

• What is(are) you main pain points with using/not using Zarr:

  • Documentation
  • Integration with existing software, libraries.
  • Verbosity
  • Performance
  • Ease to share/get datasets
  • Collaboration with other people
  • Other

• Misc comments (open field).

• Enter your email to be notified about the availability of this survey results, analysis and next survey.

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Rust 2019 survey , Stackoverflow developer survey

This could be used as a baseline with a survey say every 6 month or year.

We could use google forms for something that small, or ask NumFOCUS whether there is a surveymonkey or alike.

Outside of open fields which may contain sensitive informations that might need to be cleaned, I suggest/suppose the results will be an open dataset.

[Mubarraqqq]

Hi @joshmoore @MSanKeys963 can I still make a contribution to this issue?