1501037 - [Growth] Attribution Field Documentation

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Data Science :: Documentation, task)

Description

[Su-Young Hong]

Brief description of the request:

Document exactly what attribution means, how it gets filled, and what we should expect in Telemetry

Link to any assets:

Is there a specific data scientist you would like or someone who has helped to triage this request:

assigned to shong by shong

Comment 1

[Su-Young Hong]

current work here: https://github.com/SuYoungHong/firefox-acquisition/blob/master/docs-attribution.md

need to get review from subject matter experts and figure out best place to publish

Comment 2

[Su-Young Hong]

Summary:

Write documentation in DTMO (specifically in DTMO!) explaining how the Attribution field works. This documentation should have:

• Overview of pipeline from GA to telemetry
• Logic in GA on what info gets passed
  • Direct nav
  • Referral sources
  • Whitelist
  • (any changes to logic from the past)
  • Rough explanation of what ISN'T covered (i.e. 3rd party sources? FTP? non-Win OS?)
• How it gets passed to Telemetry
• How it works in Telemetry
  • What time / version it is reliable after
  • behavior on paveover

Comment 3

[Su-Young Hong]

unassigning from myself as I'll be on PTO / leave until Oct 13th.

Going to leave this open if anyone wants to pick it up, otherwise I'll re-assign to myself when I'm back / have bandwidth.

Comment 4

[Jess Mokrzecki [:jmok]]

Work for the DS team is now tracked in Jira. You can search with the Data Science Jira project for the corresponding ticket.