Filtering data

Quick answer: Use QADFU ( download)

Filtering refers to creating subsets of your data. You might want to do this for several reasons:

  • Your log file is too big and VWTk is having trouble so you'd like to split it up into smaller chunks.
  • You are interested in looking at only a few avatars instead of everyone.
  • You want to share a subset of the data with some other researchers.

QADFU is the Java program that can help you filter by avatars, actions, dates and times.

If you are a command line person and want to create filtering scripts, use the python program filterlog.py. You can get that file from svn through the web here: http://vwtk.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/vwtk/trunk/vwtk/python/filterlog.py