We consider 26/01/2011 as DataMeet birthday. Thats the day we talked about starting DataMeet and hence it is the birthday. But the first email to the group was sent by S.Anand on 27/01/2011. Its been five years since that first email. I took this opportunity to scrape the email list to see how we are doing and what we talked about in last five years.

Growth

Activity

Members have started 1525 and have sent in total 4570 emails. But most important is how many participate.

Category	Members
No Emails	855
1 Emails	184
2 Emails	75
3 Emails	43
More than 3	189

Discussions

Go have a look at full view of the traffic graph. Except for few peaks the group has been fairly consistent.

Starters

We have discussed about 1525 in last five years. Here is the list of top 20 starters.

author	total topics started
Nisha Thompson	199
Thejesh GN	164
sumandro	71
Sridhar Gutam	64
srinivas kodali	36
Gautam John	30
Sajjad Anwar	28
Pranesh Prakash	27
bawaza…@gmail.com	27
Venkatraman.S.	23
satyaakam	22
S Anand	21
Balaji Subbaraman	20
Nikhil VJ	19
Justin Meyers	15
Sanky	15
Dilip Damle	14
Maya Indira Ganesh	13
Shree	13

First Responders

The first responders are important when someone posts a question. They are the first ones to respond to the questions. As you would have guessed the list is different from the starters list.

author	number first response
Devdatta Tengshe	36
Gautam John	36
Nisha Thompson	57
srinivas kodali	28
Thejesh GN	27
Sajjad Anwar	21
satyaakam	20
Arun Ganesh	16
Avinash Celestine	15
Venkatraman.S.	15
Anand Chitipothu	14
sumandro	13
Dilip Damle	10
JohnsonC	10
S Anand	10
Gora Mohanty	9
Meera K	9
Sabarish Karunakar	9
Nikhil VJ	8

Part of many discussions

These are the members who have participated the most.

author	total_emails_sent
Nisha Thompson	397
Thejesh GN	297
Gautam John	158
srinivas kodali	128
sumandro	109
Sajjad Anwar	93
Arun Ganesh	88
Dilip Damle	88
Devdatta Tengshe	85
satyaakam	83
Sridhar Gutam	81
Avinash Celestine	73
Justin Meyers	71
S Anand	68
Pranesh Prakash	67
Venkatraman.S.	64
Nikhil VJ	55
Raphael Susewind	55
Anand Chitipothu	51

Topics

We have discussed many many topics over years. But there are some popular topics. I have the list of topics by most replies.

Starter	date/time	topic
Karthik Shashidhar	2015-05-04 23:00:01	Shapefiles for "complete" India
megha	2014-04-10 14:10:21	MP/MLA Shapes
Srihari Srinivasan	2013-03-06 22:59:44	List of BMTC Bus stops
Nisha Thompson	2014-05-20 23:51:49	Logo Contest Voting!
S Anand	2016-02-01 18:31:38	PIN code geocoding
Siddarth Raman	2014-04-17 16:16:29	Parliamentary Constituency to Assembly Constituency to Ward linkages
Nisha	2013-04-15 09:44:21	April's Bangalore DataMeet
Gautam John	2012-04-14 09:49:50	I Change My City
Arun Ganesh	2011-03-14 11:23:25	Licensing crowdourced data projects
Sharad Lele	2015-11-27 19:59:49	Census of India seems to have maps of everything!

We also get quite a bit of traffic through search engines. So here is the list of top topics by views.

username	date_time	views	topic
Karthik Shashidhar	2015-05-04 23:00:01	12324	Shapefiles for "complete" India
S Anand	2016-02-01 18:31:38	4783	PIN code geocoding
srinivas kodali	2013-07-01 12:49:33	2291	GeoJson data of Indian states
Aashish Gupta	2014-02-24 10:23:12	763	1981 and 1991 district-wise census data
Justin Meyers	2014-07-26 22:05:13	668	Updated Taluk Shapefile!!
indro ray	2013-08-13 10:21:18	651	MCD Delhi Admin Boundary GIS map
My profile photo	2012-08-30 17:41:45	615	Bangalore – BBMP ward boundaries – shape files available now
megha	2014-04-10 14:10:21	556	MP/MLA Shapes
Kavita Arora	2012-09-13 23:32:25	546	Ward Wise data for Bangalore – 2011 census?
Renaud Misslin	2014-12-03 09:45:16	426	Delhi ward shapefile for census 2011 data

At last customary wordcloud of topics.

Of course all the scrapers and data is available on github. Go ahead make your own visualizations.