Help: Statistics

Terminology

It is great when you have a way to judge yourself. PostTask will most likely offer much more in the future in terms of statistics and weekly reviews than it does now. However, for the time being PostTask offers some good stuff. Read on to check it out.

Where can I see them?

There are two places currently where you can see some statistics about how well you are doing: First one is within the magic box under the tab 'Stats'. Second one is when you navigate to 'My Account' and then click 'Statistics'.

What do I see?

Under the magic box 'Stats' tab you currently see two diagrams and some stats indicating your best and worst day, week and month.

The first diagram shows you how much time in the past seven days (excluding today!) you have completed and how much you have not. The red bar indicates not completed time. Green indicates completed time. Make sure to hover over any bar for some more details.

The second diagram simply shows the ratio (completed time)/(all scheduled time) in percent. Again you can hover over the bars to see the exact percentage value.

The best and worst statistics should speak for themselves. The formula with which we calculate them might be interesting to you.

How do you calculate my best and worst days?

The calculation is not very simple, but also not very complex. First off we examine how many seconds of 'completed time' and 'uncompleted time' you have for every day. Completed time means time that you scheduled for work and also completed it by either completing the entire task or adding to its progress. Not completed time is scheduled time that was not completed.

Then we look at the average completed time for all days. After that we pick all days that are above the average completed time and from those we pick the one with the highest ratio (completed time)/(total time scheduled for the day). This would get us the best day. For the worst day we pick all days that are below the average completed time and of those pick the one with the worst percentage ratio.

Why do we do this? Why do we not just pick the one with the highest ratio (completed time/total time scheduled) ?

Because you could get wrong results with this. If you have scheduled one hour for a day and completed 55 minutes of it, should that day be your best day? When on the other hand you have a day with 14 hours scheduled of which you completed 12 hours? Probably not. ;) Also, if you have a day with 17 hours scheduled and 15 hours completed, this should not be your best day if there is a day with 14 hours scheduled and 13 hours completed. Why? Because more work done is not always better. Being able to plan your day as effective as possible and knowing how much you can complete is much more valuable than being a work-aholic. That's at least our opinion. :]

For weeks and months we do the same thing just on a per week basis or on a per month basis. The statistics for weeks and months also include the running week and month.

Hidden features / Tips

How you do it	What happens
Hover over the bars in the diagrams.	Get some detailed information about your accomplishments.