<div dir="ltr">Tim, <div><br></div><div>Thanks again for the help. This helps clarify things. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, Scott</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Tim Robertson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trobertson@gbif.org" target="_blank">trobertson@gbif.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi Scott</div><div><br></div>The explanation is that occurrences come from a different backend system.<div><br></div><div>There are metrics for occurrence datasets:</div><div> <a href="http://www.gbif.org/dataset/ad0d1a24-e952-11e2-961f-00145eb45e9a/stats" target="_blank">http://www.gbif.org/dataset/ad0d1a24-e952-11e2-961f-00145eb45e9a/stats</a></div><div><br></div><div>But that page stitches together (client side) results from the occurrence metrics api</div><div> <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#metrics" target="_blank">http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#metrics</a></div><div><br></div><div>Check what the browser is doing to see the API calls (it’s ajax).</div><div><br></div><div>Most occurrence counts you see scattered around <a href="http://GBIF.org" target="_blank">GBIF.org</a> web app are driven from the occurrence metrics API. It’s very tailored to the <a href="http://GBIF.org" target="_blank">GBIF.org</a> site, as those metrics are difficult to track - we needed a very fast numerical system to follow the indexing traffic in real time.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this helps,</div><div>Tim</div><div><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On 07 Oct 2014, at 22:38, Scott Chamberlain <<a href="mailto:myrmecocystus@gmail.com" target="_blank">myrmecocystus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello, <div><br></div><div>On the dataset metrics page <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/registry#datasetMetrics" target="_blank">http://www.gbif.org/developer/registry#datasetMetrics</a> you describe that <br><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">The dataset metrics API provides metrics for datasets of type CHECKLIST only.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Curious why this is?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Scott</div></div></div></div></div>
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