You still don't say what organization you are associated with.  Your domain name and e-mail address give no hint. How do we know that "Harsh Singhal" is even a real person?  An e-mail address at a university (for example) would go a long way to establish that.  Gmail doesn't cut it for me.
The preponderance of evidence is that you're just a naīve person who would give your own information to anyone who asked.  On the other hand, it's possible that you are conducting industrial espionage by recording IP addresses and associating "use cases" with companies.  In my opinion, the onus is on you to show your bona fides, and you haven't done it.
That's all I have to say...


From: Harsh [mailto:singhalblr@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 4:19 AM
To: Bill.Venables@csiro.au
Cc: Dwyer Rex USRE; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] R usage survey

The R usage survey goo.gl/jw1ig<http://goo.gl/jw1ig> has been updated with the following changes:

Addition of -
Disclaimer :
This data will not be used for any commercial purposes
Do not include any personally identifiable information
Contact: Harsh Singhal (singhalblr AT gmail DOT com) for any queries

Removal of -
Name field

My primary purpose in conducting this survey is -
- Find multiple use cases for various R packages
- Understand the nature of work when R is being used in Academia / Commercial settings
- The kind of technologies that are being used in conjunction with R (popularity of usage of Python with R, and what purpose does using Python solve)

The outcome of this analysis will be published on my blog (in the process of being created).
There is absolutely no commercial purpose behind collecting this information and as earlier stated, this information will not be shared with personally identifiable information.

Thank you once again Mr. Dwyer and Mr. Venables for raising very import questions.

I thank the R users who have already filled in the survey goo.gl/jw1ig<http://goo.gl/jw1ig> and request more to do so.

Regards,
Harsh Singhal







On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:41 AM, <Bill.Venables@csiro.au> wrote:
No.  That's not answering the question.  ALL surveys are for collecting information.

The substantive issue is what purpose do you have in seeking this information in the first place and what are you going to do with it when you get it?

Do you have some commercial purpose in mind?  If so, what is it?

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org<mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org> [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org<mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org>] On Behalf Of Harsh
Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 1:13 AM
To: rex.dwyer@syngenta.com<mailto:rex.dwyer@syngenta.com>
Cc: r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] R usage survey

Hi Rex and useRs,

The purpose of the survey has been mentioned on the survey link goo.gl/jw1ig<http://goo.gl/jw1ig>
but I will also reproduce it here.
- Geographical distribution of R users
- Application areas where R is being used
- Supporting technology being used along with R
- Academic background distribution of R users

The potential personally identifiable information such as name and employer
name are optional fields. Actually all the fields in the survey are
optional.

Some of the analysis output(s) could be along the lines of :-
- Usage statistics of various R packages
- Distribution of R users across countries/cities
- Mapping various applications to packages
- Text Mining of the responses to create informative word clouds

Personally, I am excited about the kind of data I will receive through this
survey and the various insights that could be derived. As already mentioned,
the results will be shared with the community.

Thank you Rex for raising an important point. It is indeed necessary for me
to personally assure the user community that the results will be shared in a
manner that will not contain any personally identifiable information.

Those who wish to gain access to the raw data will be provided with all the
fields but not the name and employer name fields.

Just out of curiosity : It is possible to get name, employer name, location,
usage information and academic background details when searching for R users
on LinkedIn and the many R related groups there.
Does this also provide potential opportunities for misuse and "outrageous"
analyses, since almost anyone can get onto LinkedIn and access user profiles
?

Thank you for your interest and support.
Regards,
Harsh












On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:02 PM, <rex.dwyer@syngenta.com<mailto:rex.dwyer@syngenta.com>> wrote:

> Harsh, "Suitably analyzed" for whose purposes?  One man's "suitable" is
> another's "outrageous". That's why people want to see the gowns at the
> Oscars.  Under what auspices are you conducting this survey?  What do you
> intend to do with it?  You don't give any assurance that the results you
> post won't have personally identifiable information. I don't get the
> impression that you know much about survey design.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org<mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org> [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org<mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org>]
> On Behalf Of Harsh
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:53 AM
> To: r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org>
> Subject: [R] R usage survey
>
> Hi R users,
> I request members of the R community to consider filling a short survey
> regarding the use of R.
> The survey can be found at http://goo.gl/jw1ig
>
> Please accept my apologies for posting here for a non-technical reason.
>
> The data collected will be suitably analyzed and I'll post a link to the
> results in the coming weeks.
>
> Thank you all for your interest and for sharing your R usage information.
>
> Regards,
> Harsh Singhal
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