Use Slack? This bot can give you a bunch of handy metrics
Slack claims some 300,000 paid seats among the million-plus users of its popular real-time messaging app for teams, but it's a pretty safe bet that few of the companies paying for the service have a detailed understanding of how their users are putting it to work. Enter Slackalytics, a new textual analysis bot that promises a wealth of insight.
Designed to go beyond the metrics offered by Slack itself out of the box, Slackalytics is a "simple, open source bot for analyzing Slack messages," in the words of its creators, Nico Miceli, a Google Developer Expert for Google Analytics, and developer Joe Zeoli.
"When my team started using Slack, I wanted to get the stats," wrote Miceli, who is also a technical analytics consultant with Team Demystified, in a blog post on Tuesday. "Which clients are contacting us most frequently? When are [they] contacting us? More importantly, who on our team is the wordiest and uses the most emojis?"
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