Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:50:28 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Interaction Membership Database now online
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

This from InterAction.
One can search for example: VA and see all of the Virginia folks who have =
pre-supported, voted (or didn't . . .). And of course your name.

mjw

As promised, our full membership database is now online at

http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/members.htm

The search facilities have been upgraded in line with
feedback received. We have added State information to
country so you can now identify people from your state
who are attending. Unlimited records can be retrieved
although only 50 per page to make harvesting less
attractive.

We have included all bid as well as con members so
that unconverted presupporters can confirm their status
and hence conversion costs.

We have spent a fair amount of effort on data cleansing
and removed approximately 30 errors. Qualitative trend
analysis (ie my personl experience and judgement) suggests
that our data is around 98-99% accurate, ie I expect around
20-40 residual errors. These include a small number of duplicates
(I have spotted one more already), a few typos and mis-spellings
(sorry if we couldn't read the handwriting on the form !) and
probably a small number of status errors. We also have a few
memberships not yet processed - those received by agents
or the office in the last few weeks. These should be
resolved for the next upload around mid-December.

Before we announce the availability of these data more widely
we would like to do some sampling to confirm that the data
is indeed of good quality. I'd therefore like to invite you
to check your entries and let me know of any errors
(at harriscp at logica.com). If this exercise (which we are
also doing with our staff) goes well we'll be publicising the
service more widely next week.

Thanks

Colin Harris
Vice-Chair, Interaction

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