Primero Data Challenge Q2 Edition - 27 June 2023

What did we learn?  Some key points:

• Primero's infrastructure can tell us a lot about how programmes are using the application. 

• Log data is data that machines generate. *It is not data that individual users enter into a system*

• Log data is BIG DATA. If you know what to look for, it can be very useful.

• Log data can give us insights about lots of things:

  • • about how users are using a system, without exposing any personal / client data

    • the behavior of the system, when it is up, down, fast or slow

    • Machine performance and patterns, including anything out of the ordinary (good for security!)

    • See a good article here: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/learn/log-analytics.html 

• The Iraq CPIMS+ Team showed that a lot of work goes into preparing data for visualization, but once you have a good template and process, updating your visualizations is pretty easy.

• The Iraq CPIMS+ dashboard aggregates data from various data types and provides great flexibility for visualizing data, seeing relationships, and "slicing and dicing"

• We are (gradually) moving more of Primero's search and reporting functionality to PostgreSQL

• PostgreSQL is a database that will give Primero new capabilities, including better date and trend reporting. 

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