analytics.utf8

Goal: Get us to a working edxanalytics part

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QUESTION
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As far as I know, in edX code, documentation and UI, the word "analytics" appears multiple times:
 - there is an analytics tab for instructors within studio
 - insights repo on github
 - edxanalytics repo on github

These together have at least two different roles:
 - one to help the instructor teach (how many students answered this quiz/hw successfully?, etc)
 - the other one to help further paedagogy research (keep logs of all student/site interactions in order to answer questions such as "how often do students pause videos?" "do they go back to the video when doing the homework?", etc)

ANALYTICS.1: Correct so far?

ANALYTICS.2: Do you know how to install insights or edxanalytics? If so, how long does it take to install that? What does it allow us to do? Is is possible/recommended/en-/discouraged to install it separately or later? 

ANALYTICS.3: Do you have an oppinion about the scope of analytics and insights in the next few months (where's the future heading, will insights superseed the functionality of analytics, etc.)

ANSWER
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ANALYTICS.1:  

That's correct yes, as far as I can tell for the goals - giving feedback about how the
classroom is doing, and processing data for research. The `insights` repository seem to
have been designed with flexibility in mind, which would be useful for both scenarios.

I haven't attempted to install them, but `insight` and `edxanalytics` are actually closely
related. In a nutshell, `insights` seem to be a generic analytics software, developped by
edX but potentially usable with other applications than edX. `edxanalytics` is code &
templates used by insights when it is used with edX.

Also note that both seem to be experimental/development versions of what would be used in
the future for running analytics on edX - I haven't looked at the code for this, so not
sure what's currently used, but the repositories seem to indicate that it's not the case
yet, so not sure those two can be used yet.