| Task type | Total in year 2024 | Total in year 2023 | Total in year 2022 | Total in year 2021 | Total in year 2020 | Total in year 2019 | Total in year 2018 | Total in year 2017 | Total in year 2016 | Total in year 2015 | Total across years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0.00 | 628.44 | 341.64 | 433.75 | 757.01 | 1,563.32 | 2,986.00 | 3,142.00 | 835.00 | 0.00 | 10,687.16 |
| Preliminary research | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.40 | 0.00 | 650.00 | 1,175.00 | 0.00 | 1,836.40 |
| Data entry | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 110.33 | 775.26 | 440.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,325.59 |
| Total | 0.00 | 628.44 | 341.64 | 433.75 | 757.01 | 1,685.05 | 3,761.26 | 4,232.00 | 2,010.00 | 0.00 | 13,849.15 |
Graph of payments made by task type and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of payments made by task type and year (cumulative)
| Month | Coding | Preliminary research | Data entry | Total across task types |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12 | 420.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 420.00 |
| 2023-08 | 3.80 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.80 |
| 2023-06 | 173.93 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 173.93 |
| 2023-05 | 7.71 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.71 |
| 2023-01 | 23.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 23.00 |
| 2022-12 | 300.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 300.00 |
| 2022-04 | 29.57 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 29.57 |
| 2022-01 | 12.07 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.07 |
| 2021-12 | 326.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 326.12 |
| 2021-07 | 38.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 38.00 |
| 2021-06 | 62.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 62.03 |
| 2021-01 | 7.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.60 |
| 2020-12 | 435.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 435.00 |
| 2020-07 | 12.16 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 12.16 |
| 2020-05 | 14.54 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 14.54 |
| 2020-04 | 5.41 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.41 |
| 2020-01 | 289.90 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 289.90 |
| 2019-12 | 528.84 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 528.84 |
| 2019-11 | 125.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 125.00 |
| 2019-09 | 0.00 | 11.40 | 0.00 | 11.40 |
| 2019-08 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.27 | 1.27 |
| 2019-07 | 18.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 18.04 |
| 2019-06 | 34.72 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 34.72 |
| 2019-05 | 91.00 | 0.00 | 109.06 | 200.06 |
| 2019-04 | 208.69 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 208.69 |
| 2019-03 | 439.33 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 439.33 |
| 2019-02 | 42.47 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 42.47 |
| 2019-01 | 75.23 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 75.23 |
| 2018-12 | 263.00 | 0.00 | 8.76 | 271.76 |
| 2018-11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 53.98 | 53.98 |
| 2018-10 | 50.00 | 0.00 | 82.57 | 132.57 |
| 2018-09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 107.95 | 107.95 |
| 2018-08 | 215.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 | 224.00 |
| 2018-07 | 554.00 | 0.00 | 17.00 | 571.00 |
| 2018-06 | 55.00 | 0.00 | 396.00 | 451.00 |
| 2018-05 | 114.00 | 0.00 | 100.00 | 214.00 |
| 2018-04 | 320.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 320.00 |
| 2018-03 | 390.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 390.00 |
| 2018-02 | 350.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 350.00 |
| 2018-01 | 675.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 675.00 |
| 2017-12 | 1,362.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,362.00 |
| 2017-11 | 40.00 | 350.00 | 150.00 | 540.00 |
| 2017-10 | 835.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 835.00 |
| 2017-09 | 200.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 200.00 |
| 2017-08 | 325.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 325.00 |
| 2017-07 | 340.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 340.00 |
| 2017-06 | 40.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 40.00 |
| 2017-04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 230.00 | 230.00 |
| 2017-03 | 0.00 | 300.00 | 60.00 | 360.00 |
| 2016-12 | 0.00 | 170.00 | 0.00 | 170.00 |
| 2016-11 | 335.00 | 80.00 | 0.00 | 415.00 |
| 2016-10 | 230.00 | 925.00 | 0.00 | 1,155.00 |
| 2016-09 | 150.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 150.00 |
| 2016-08 | 40.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 40.00 |
| 2016-01 | 80.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 80.00 |
| Total across months | 10,687.16 | 1,836.40 | 1,325.59 | 13,849.15 |
Graph of payments made by task type and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of payments made by task type and year (cumulative)
| Worker | Task venue | Task type | Task receptacle | Completion date | Payer | Payment | Topic | Time spent (hours:minutes) | Effective pay per hour | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki hosting and maintenance and feature enhancement | 2023-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 420.00 | Timeline content | The total payment of $420 breaks down as follows: $220 on hosting cost (excluding actual spending on hosting, that has been reimbursed separately) (this is up from $180 last year, with the increase mostly reflecting inflation adjustment) and $200 for a combination of: the periodic updates to the main page table, as well as custom improvement work including work on the switch to GA 4 and the update to the main page table logic to pull from GA 4 (this is up from $60 last year, due to both inflation adjustment and the additional GA 4 work that had no equivalent last year). | ||
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Coding | AI Watch | 2023-08-02 | Vipul Naik | 3.80 | AI safety | 0:20 | 11.40 | Spent 20 minutes at $11.50/hour. Work done 2023-08-02. See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commit/f5e5b50245fb91c5fdaf594e0c0696b874021c1f for the change. |
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Coding | Filter out non-AI stuff from AI Watch | 2023-06-28 | Vipul Naik | 3.11 | AI safety | 0:16 | 11.66 | Spent 16 minutes at $11.50/hour. Work done 2023-06-21 and 2023-06-28. This includes collaboration with Vipul on not showing non-AI stuff in AI Watch. See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commits?since=2023-06-28&until=2023-06-28&author=riceissa for the commits. |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Coding | N/A | 2023-06-27 | Vipul Naik | 39.33 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 3:25 | 11.51 | Spent 205 minutes at $11.50/hour. Work done 2023-06-20 to 2023-06-27. This includes the addition of a check and work on an archival script. See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commits?since=2023-06-20&until=2023-06-27&author=riceissa for the commits. |
| Issa Rice | analytics.vipulnaik.com | Coding | Switch analytics projects to GA 4 | 2023-06-25 | Vipul Naik | 111.02 | Analytics | 7:29 | 14.84 | Spent 449 minutes at $11.50/hour with a 5-hour minimum, plus $25. Work done 2023-05-21 to 2023-05-22 and 2023-06-21 to 2023-06-25. See https://github.com/riceissa/analytics-table/commits?since=2023-05-21&until=2023-06-25&author=riceissa for the commits. |
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Server script updates | 2023-06-02 | Vipul Naik | 20.47 | Timeline content | 1:47 | 11.48 | Spent 107 minutes at $11.50/hour with a 1-hour minimum and 2-hour maximum. Work done 2023-06-02. |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Coding | N/A | 2023-05-21 | Vipul Naik | 7.71 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 0:40 | 11.57 | Spent 40 minutes at $11.50/hour. Work done 2023-05-13 and 2023-05-21. This includes additions to README.md and a fix to a page title. See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commits?since=2023-05-13&until=2023-05-21&author=riceissa for the commits. |
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki hosting and maintenance and feature enhancement | 2023-01-02 | Vipul Naik | 23.00 | Timeline content | 1:35 | 14.53 | Work on improving the efficiency of the daily backup process. Spent 95 minutes at $11.50/hour with a 2-hour minimum. Work done 2023-01-02. |
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki hosting and maintenance and feature enhancement | 2022-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 300.00 | Timeline content | This includes hosting and maintenance costs of $20/month (total $240) and main page updates at $5/month ($60). | ||
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Coding | N/A | 2022-04-27 | Vipul Naik | 7.79 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 0:49 | 9.54 | This includes work on tweaking the dark mode previously implemented, as well as other minor fixes. Work done 2022-04-10 to 2022-04-27. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Add theme changer | 2022-04-10 | Vipul Naik | 18.81 | Philanthropy | 1:59 | 9.48 | Work done 2022-04-10 at https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/pull/140 extending dark mode, previously developed for AI Watch / Org Watch, to the donations list website. |
| Issa Rice | Contract work for Vipul Naik | Coding | Implement arbitrary income feature | 2022-04-02 | Vipul Naik | 2.97 | Taxes | 0:21 | 8.49 | Work done 2022-04-02 at https://github.com/vipulnaik/contractwork/pull/25 to implement additional functionality for the tax guidance page; this functionality was mainly for Issa's own use but Vipul promised to cover the time cost. |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Coding | Limit display on the AI Watch and Org Watch homepages to top 300 + ties with the 300th | 2022-01-30 | Vipul Naik | 12.07 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 1:16 | 9.53 | Work done 2022-01-30. Work on https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/98 |
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki hosting and maintenance and feature enhancement | 2021-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 300.00 | Timeline content | This includes hosting and maintenance costs of $20/month (total $240) and main page updates at $5/month ($60). | ||
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Coding | Implement optional dark mode on AIW / OW | 2021-12-29 | Vipul Naik | 19.28 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 2:02 | 9.48 | Work done 2021-12-19 to 2021-12-29. Most of the work was for https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/99 for initial work on dark mode for AI Watch and Org Watch. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Separate out reset and read by table in Makefile | 2021-12-24 | Vipul Naik | 6.84 | Philanthropy | 0:43 | 9.54 | Work done 2021-12-24. Work at https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/pull/139 for https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues/138 |
| Issa Rice | analytics.vipulnaik.com | Coding | On top-pages.php, print the h-index for every month | 2021-07-10 | Vipul Naik | 38.00 | Analytics | 0:47 | 48.51 | Work done 2021-07-10. Payment at max($38, $9.50/hour * time spent). |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Show original currency info in notes column | 2021-06-16 | Vipul Naik | 24.03 | Philanthropy | 2:32 | 9.49 | Spent 2 hours 32 minutes at $9.50/hour. Work on https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/pull/135 for https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues/134 (currency info display). Work done 2021-06-09 to 2021-06-16. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Explore the creation of graphical timelines for donors; Rename "Open Philanthropy Project" -> "Open Philanthropy" | 2021-06-04 | Vipul Naik | 38.00 | Philanthropy | 3:00 | 12.67 | Spent 3 hours for max($38, $9.50 * number of hours). Work on https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues/125 and https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues/129 started last year (2020-12-16 to 2020-12-18) and wrapped up 2021-06-04. |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Coding | Org Watch | 2021-01-04 | Vipul Naik | 7.60 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 0:48 | 9.50 | Spent 48 minutes at $9.50/hour. Work done 2021-01-04. Work on https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/53 and https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/56 |
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2020-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 105.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Payment for maintaining the process that does daily backups of Wikipedia content, at $2/week for 52 weeks, from 2020-01-01 to 2020-12-31, with an extra dollar because of the extra day beyond 52 weeks | ||
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki hosting and maintenance and feature enhancement | 2020-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 300.00 | Timeline content | This includes hosting and maintenance costs of $20/month (total $240) and main page updates at $5/month ($60). | ||
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Coding | On an organization page, have a programmatically populated section for "similar organizations" | 2020-12-14 | Vipul Naik | 30.00 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 1:14 | 24.32 | Work done 2020-12-14 at a rate of max{$30, $9.50/hour * time spent} on https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/52 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | N/A | 2020-07-13 | Vipul Naik | 12.16 | Philanthropy | 1:17 | 9.48 | Work to fix a backend script. Work done 2020-07-10 to 2020-07-13. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Improve the way we deal with renamings for donors and donees | 2020-05-19 | Vipul Naik | 14.54 | Philanthropy | 1:32 | 9.48 | Work done 2020-05-18 and 2020-05-19 |
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Coding | AI Watch | 2020-04-19 | Vipul Naik | 5.41 | AI safety | 0:34 | 9.55 | Work done 2020-04-11 and 2020-04-19 at $9.50/hour. This comprises work on https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/20 (2020-04-11), https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/21 (2020-04-19), and https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues/22 (2020-04-19). |
| Issa Rice | Contract work for Vipul Naik | Coding | Move to a safe query structure for all the queries at contractwork.vipulnaik.com | 2020-01-21 | Vipul Naik | 50.00 | Safe query | 3:10 | 15.79 | Work done on 2020-01-20 and 2020-01-21. Payment determined as max{$125, $8.50/hour * 3.17 hours} |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Move completely to a safe query structure on donations.vipulnaik.com | 2020-01-20 | Vipul Naik | 75.00 | Philanthropy | 3:24 | 22.06 | Work done on 2020-01-20. Payment determined as max{$75, $9.50/hour * 3.41 hours} |
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki maintenance and feature enhancement | 2020-01-15 | Vipul Naik | 125.00 | Timeline content | 2:53 | 43.35 | Work done on 2020-01-15. Payment determined as max{$125, $8.50/hour * 2.88 hours}. Issues worked on are https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table/issues/6 https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table/issues/7 https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table/issues/8 https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table/issues/9 https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table/issues/10 https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table/issues/11 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Explore the creation of graphical timeline for donors, donees, and donor-donee pairs based on intended_funding_timeframe_in_months | 2020-01-08 | Vipul Naik | 39.90 | Philanthropy | 4:12 | 9.50 | Work done on 2020-01-08. See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues/125#issuecomment-572384312 for a summary of the work done. This is part of a multi-month effort on the issue |
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2019-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 105.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Payment for maintaining the process that does daily backups of Wikipedia content, at $2/week for 52 weeks, from 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31, with an extra dollar because of the extra day beyond 52 weeks | ||
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki hosting and maintenance and feature enhancement | 2019-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 240.00 | Timeline content | This includes hosting and maintenance costs of $20/month (total $180), main page updates at $5/month ($45), and $15 to cover the half month. | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Fix regex for donor and donee document list matching | 2019-12-19 | Vipul Naik | 8.84 | Philanthropy | 0:56 | 9.47 | Fix for a regex bug https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues/126 at the request of Vipul; all work done within one day 2019-12-19 |
| Issa Rice | analytics.vipulnaik.com | Coding | analytics.vipulnaik.com | 2019-12-15 | Vipul Naik | 175.00 | Analytics | 20:06 | 8.71 | Work done from October 25 to December 15, 2019. The work was on issues https://github.com/riceissa/analytics-table/issues/2 https://github.com/riceissa/analytics-table/issues/3 https://github.com/riceissa/analytics-table/issues/4 https://github.com/riceissa/analytics-table/issues/5 and https://github.com/riceissa/analytics-table/issues/6 of which the bulk of effort was on the last issue; this makes available the top viewed pages by month for each site. Payment calculated as max($175, 20.10 hours * $8.50/hour) |
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki maintenance and feature enhancement | 2019-11-30 | Vipul Naik | 125.00 | Timeline content | 5:05 | 24.59 | Work done between November 28 and November 30, 2019. Rate determined as max($125, 5.05 hours * $8.50). Issues include https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table/issues/3 https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table/issues/4 and https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table/issues/5 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Preliminary research | Explore the creation of graphical timeline for donors, donees, and donor-donee pairs based on intended_funding_timeframe_in_months | 2019-09-18 | Vipul Naik | 11.40 | Philanthropy | 1:12 | 9.50 | Exploratory work related to graphical timelines. The results are recorded in the comments on https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues/125 |
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Data entry | AI Watch | 2019-08-16 | Vipul Naik | 1.27 | AI safety | 0:08 | 9.53 | See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commit/02f2358640ad027f7906c9e7fe3179f13aedea81 for the commit |
| Issa Rice | Devec/Demography data portal | Coding | None | 2019-07-04 | Vipul Naik | 18.04 | Global development | 1:51 | 9.75 | Some work on https://github.com/riceissa/devec-demography-data-portal/issues/2 Work was done on 2019-07-04 at standard rates for Devec/Demography data portal of $9.75/hour |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-06-30 | Vipul Naik | 14.06 | Philanthropy | 1:29 | 9.48 | See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-06-01&until=2019-07-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-06-20 and 2019-05-30 |
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Wikipedia Views country breakdown | 2019-06-05 | Vipul Naik | 20.66 | Wikipedia | 2:26 | 8.49 | Work done on 2019-06-04 and 2019-06-05 for some residual cleanup and fixes related to https://github.com/vipulnaik/wikipediaviews/issues/22 |
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Data entry | AI Watch | 2019-05-22 | Vipul Naik | 109.06 | AI safety | 11:29 | 9.50 | See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-05-01&until=2019-06-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-05-02 and 2019-05-22. Although all the time spent is counted under AI Watch, some of the work was for the related Org Watch |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-05-13 | Vipul Naik | 69.92 | Philanthropy | 7:22 | 9.49 | See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-05-01&until=2019-06-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-05-01 and 2019-05-13 |
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Wikipedia Views country breakdown | 2019-05-09 | Vipul Naik | 21.08 | Wikipedia | 2:29 | 8.49 | Work done on 2019-05-08 and 2019-05-09 for https://github.com/vipulnaik/wikipediaviews/issues/22 |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Coding | Org Watch | 2019-04-30 | Vipul Naik | 41.96 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 4:25 | 9.50 | Work mostly involved adding display support for organization documents, adding a table of contents, and miscellaneous UI tweaks. See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-04-01&until=2019-05-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-04-01 and 2019-04-30 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-04-28 | Vipul Naik | 166.73 | Philanthropy | 17:33 | 9.50 | See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-04-01&until=2019-05-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-04-08 and 2019-04-28 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-03-27 | Vipul Naik | 33.09 | Philanthropy | 3:29 | 9.50 | See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-03-01&until=2019-04-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-03-10 and 2019-03-27 |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Coding | Org Watch | 2019-03-27 | Vipul Naik | 106.24 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 11:11 | 9.50 | Work involved finishing up some pending issues filed in https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/issues See https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commits?author=riceissa&since=2019-03-01&until=2019-04-01 for the work done. Work was done between 2019-03-17 and 2019-03-27 |
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki hosting and maintenance and feature enhancement | 2019-03-20 | Vipul Naik | 300.00 | Timeline content | This includes hosting and maintenance costs of $20/month (total $240), plus monthly updates and ongoing improvements to https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table at $5/month (total $60) | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-02-26 | Vipul Naik | 42.47 | Philanthropy | 4:29 | 9.47 | Most of the focus was on adding various kinds of donation statistics that are particularly useful for large donors who have made lots of donations. Work was done between 2019-02-02 and 2019-02-26 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2019-01-21 | Vipul Naik | 75.23 | Philanthropy | 8:51 | 8.50 | Most of the focus was on writing code to process grants lists for a number of foundation donors. See issues #89 to #107 (not all of them were completed or worked on within the month of January). Work was done between 2019-01-10 and 2019-01-21 |
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2018-12-31 | Vipul Naik | 113.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Payment for maintaining the process that does daily backups of Wikipedia content, at $2/week for 56.5 weeks, from 2017-12-02 to 2018-12-31 | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Donations list website | 2018-12-27 | Vipul Naik | 8.76 | Philanthropy | 1:02 | 8.48 | Most of the focus was on adding metadata for a number of donees. Work was done between 2018-12-05 and 2018-12-27 |
| Issa Rice | analytics.vipulnaik.com | Coding | analytics.vipulnaik.com | 2018-12-15 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | Analytics | 12:55 | 11.61 | Setup work for a public website https://analytics.vipulnaik.com that records Google Analytics data for a number of websites. Pay for this was set as max{$150, $8.50/hour * Time spent}. 12.92 hours were spent on the first phase of work, so the $150 was binding. Work done 2018-11-26 to 2018-12-15. GitHub repository at https://github.com/riceissa/analytics-table |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Donations list website | 2018-11-29 | Vipul Naik | 53.98 | Philanthropy | 6:21 | 8.50 | Most of the focus was on adding metadata for a number of donees. Work was done between 2018-11-06 and 2018-11-29 |
| Issa Rice | Contract work for Vipul Naik | Coding | Contract work for Vipul Naik | 2018-10-24 | Vipul Naik | 50.00 | Graphical presentation | 1:59 | 25.21 | The availability of graphs was extended to a number of other pages on the contract work website. Pay was set at max{$8.50 * number of hours, $50}. Since the work was completed in less than 2 hours, payment of $50 was selected. GitHub issue https://github.com/vipulnaik/contractwork/issues/17 and pull request https://github.com/vipulnaik/contractwork/pull/18 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Donations list website | 2018-10-22 | Vipul Naik | 66.44 | Philanthropy | 7:49 | 8.50 | Most of the focus was on adding metadata for a number of donees. Work was done between 2018-10-05 and 2018-10-22 |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Data entry | Org Watch | 2018-10-17 | Vipul Naik | 16.13 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 2:09 | 7.50 | Work done primarily between 2018-10-06 and 2018-10-17 |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Donations list website | 2018-09-21 | Vipul Naik | 39.10 | Philanthropy | 4:36 | 8.50 | Work on MIRI top donors updates and BERI grants. Work done between 2018-09-01 and 2018-09-21. See https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits/master/sql?author=riceissa and check the September 2018 commits for more information |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Data entry | Org Watch | 2018-09-19 | Vipul Naik | 68.85 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 9:11 | 7.50 | Work done primarily between 2018-09-13 and 2018-09-19 adding data for The Good Food Institute and Effective Altruism Foundation and making other minor edits; see https://github.com/riceissa/aiwatch/commits and check the September 2018 commits for more. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-08-30 | Vipul Naik | 215.00 | Philanthropy | 25:18 | 8.50 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in August 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. Dates of work ranged from August 5 to August 30 |
| Issa Rice | Computing data project | Data entry | Computing data project | 2018-08-27 | Vipul Naik | 9.00 | Computer science | 1:12 | 7.50 | Addition of some more provider data (Amazon Lightsail) and other related work. Work done on August 27 |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Data entry | Org Watch | 2018-07-31 | Vipul Naik | 17.00 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 2:17 | 7.45 | A little bit of work adding more data for some already added orgs. Work begun end of July and continued in August; this payment is for the part of work till the end of July |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-07-31 | Vipul Naik | 146.00 | Philanthropy | 17:11 | 8.50 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in July 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Computing data project | Coding | Computing data project | 2018-07-29 | Vipul Naik | 408.00 | Computer science | 41:53 | 9.74 | Basic setup and initial data entry to do comparison across different cloud providers for compute, storage, and network. Payment for work done throughout the month. Check https://github.com/riceissa/computing-data-project/commits for the dates that work was done |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-06-30 | Vipul Naik | 55.00 | Philanthropy | 6:27 | 8.53 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in June 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Org Watch | Data entry | Org Watch | 2018-06-30 | Vipul Naik | 396.00 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 52:48 | 7.50 | Work on a new site: Org Watch https://orgwatch.issarice.com/ building on the same code and data format used for AI Watch https://aiwatch.issarice.com/ The idea of the new site is to expand coverage to organizations and positions outside AI safety. Work at a pay rate of $60 per 8-hour day, or $7.50/hour |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-05-31 | Vipul Naik | 78.00 | Philanthropy | 9:08 | 8.54 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in May 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Data entry | AI Watch | 2018-05-29 | Vipul Naik | 100.00 | Organizational structures and dynamics | 16:00 | 6.25 | 2 days (total 16 hours: May 28 and May 29) of work to add more data and summarization tools for people at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute: https://aiwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Machine+Intelligence+Research+Institute |
| Issa Rice | Devec/Demography data portal | Coding | Devec/Demography data portal | 2018-05-28 | Vipul Naik | 36.00 | Global development | 3:43 | 9.69 | Helping Vipul set up devec hosting, and some bugfixes and improvements in the process. See https://github.com/riceissa/devec-demography-data-portal/commits for more details |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-04-30 | Vipul Naik | 250.00 | Philanthropy | 29:43 | 8.41 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in April 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Wikipedia Clickstream | 2018-04-25 | Vipul Naik | 70.00 | Wikipedia | 7:54 | 8.86 | Work done on April 21 and April 25, 2018. The work built on previous work with the clickstream dataset to streamline the monthly update process, now that the Wikimedia Foundation is publishing the datasets every month. See https://github.com/vipulnaik/wikipediaviews/issues/21 for the issue specifics |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-03-31 | Vipul Naik | 70.00 | Philanthropy | 8:12 | 8.54 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in March 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Timelines wiki | Coding | Timelines wiki hosting and maintenance and feature enhancement | 2018-03-20 | Vipul Naik | 320.00 | Timeline content | This includes hosting and maintenance costs of $20/month (total $240), plus payment for additional work, such as automating the main page table and making sure it is updated: https://github.com/riceissa/timelines-wiki-main-page-table | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-02-28 | Vipul Naik | 350.00 | Philanthropy | 41:00 | 8.54 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in February 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2018-01-31 | Vipul Naik | 675.00 | Philanthropy | 79:20 | 8.51 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in January 2018 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2017-12-30 | Vipul Naik | 260.00 | Philanthropy | 30:18 | 8.58 | Work on a bunch of issues related to importing grants databases for different donors into the donations list website. See comments made in December 2017 on http://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/issues for more information. |
| Issa Rice | Devec/Demography data portal | Coding | Devec/Demography Data Portal | 2017-12-14 | Vipul Naik | 165.00 | Global development | 17:44 | 9.30 | Work on setting up the interface of the Devec/Demography data portal, from 2017-12-08 to 2017-12-14. Launch of the portal is pending review by Vipul |
| Issa Rice | Computing data project | Coding | Computing data project | 2017-12-09 | Vipul Naik | 250.00 | Computer science | 29:23 | 8.51 | Basic data entry and setup for a project to track computing prices over time. The project was paused for a while without producing a complete launchable product or website. Work was from 2017-11-18 to 2017-12-09 |
| Issa Rice | Devec/Demography data portal | Coding | Devec/Demography Data Portal | 2017-12-07 | Vipul Naik | 475.00 | Global development | 52:28 | 9.05 | Continued work on data porting to SQL; this extends the previously mentioned work ending 2017-10-30 of importing datasets and cleaning them up. This entry counts the part of the work after 2017-10-30 and till 2017-12-07 |
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2017-12-03 | Vipul Naik | 212.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Payment for maintaining the process that does daily backups of Wikipedia content, at $4/week for 53 weeks | ||
| Issa Rice | Devec/Demography data portal | Coding | Devec/Demography Data Portal | 2017-11-17 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Global development | 4:47 | 8.36 | SQL query optimization work on 2017-11-16 and 2017-11-17 related to the Devec/Demography data portal |
| Issa Rice | Devec subwiki | Preliminary research | Devec subwiki | 2017-11-16 | Vipul Naik | 350.00 | Global development | 121:29 | 2.88 | Continuation of preliminary reading in development economics work; this covers the batch of reading from 2017-10-07 to 2017-11-16. A previous payment was added for work from 2017-09-06 to 2017-10-06 |
| Issa Rice | AI Watch | Data entry | AI Watch | 2017-11-07 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | AI safety | 23:51 | 6.29 | Phase 1 of work on AI Watch, a site to better track the people and organizations working on AI safety. As of the time of finalizing pay, 309 people were entered. In addition to data entry, Issa also designed the database schema and wrote code to render data from the database in tables |
| Issa Rice | Devec/Demography data portal | Coding | Devec/Demography Data Portal | 2017-10-30 | Vipul Naik | 700.00 | Global development | 71:48 | 9.75 | Code written for data processing and cleaning related to five datasets: https://github.com/riceissa/maddison-project-data (Maddison Project), https://github.com/riceissa/penn-world-table-data (Penn World Table), https://github.com/riceissa/world-development-indicators (World Development Indicators), https://github.com/riceissa/total-economy-database (Total Economy Database), https://github.com/riceissa/fred-processing (FRED) |
| Issa Rice | Contract work for Vipul Naik | Coding | Contract work for Vipul Naik | 2017-10-07 | Vipul Naik | 135.00 | Graphical presentation | 8:49 | 15.31 | Code written to generate graphs of incremental and cumulative payments by various drilldowns plotted at yearly and monthly granularity. See pull requests https://github.com/vipulnaik/contractwork/pull/10 https://github.com/vipulnaik/contractwork/pull/11 https://github.com/vipulnaik/contractwork/pull/12 or look at the commits made in https://github.com/riceissa/contractwork/tree/misc-2017-10 (a fork where the commits were made) |
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2017-09-30 | Vipul Naik | 200.00 | Philanthropy/tabular presentation | See commits from September 28 to September 30 by Issa Rice, specifically https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commits?author=riceissa&since=2017-09-28T07:00:00Z&until=2017-10-01T07:00:00Z for the full list. This included incorporating data from the Effective Altruism Survey (separate repository https://github.com/riceissa/ea-survey-donations with 12 commits) and Effective Altruism Grants (separate repository https://github.com/riceissa/ea-grants-processing/commits?author=riceissa&since=2017-09-01T07:00:00Z&until=2017-10-01T07:00:00Z with 6 commits) | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donations list website | 2017-08-12 | Vipul Naik | 325.00 | Philanthropy/tabular presentation | See commits by riceissa from 2017-08-04 to 2017-08-12. Work was for 6.5 working days, spanning 8.5 calendar days | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Donee deduplication, donor similarity, notes column expansion | 2017-07-22 | Vipul Naik | 300.00 | Graphs and data cleaning | See the branches https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/tree/donee-deduplication https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/tree/donor-similarity and https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/tree/notes-col-expansion for the relevant commits. Some commits done directly in master. Worked for about 5.5 working days (starting July 15, 2017) | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Graph legend | 2017-07-07 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Graphs | Update to graph.py utility at https://github.com/vipulnaik/wikipediaviews/blob/master/python/graph.py to show legends optionally at the bottom of graphs. Also incorporated by Vipul Naik in the code in two other repositories: https://github.com/vipulnaik/bart/blob/master/python/graph.py and https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/blob/master/python/graph.py -- see also https://github.com/vipulnaik/wikipediaviews/pull/19 for a bug fix to the push | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Coding | Comma sorting | 2017-06-18 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Donations | Fixed sorting tool we use in JavaScript so that it can sort tables while also using comma separation for greater ease of reading numbers. The commits were all made in https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/tree/comma-sort and https://github.com/vipulnaik/donations/commit/f7f99b4f0db39d3147d72a5a7f8f30f856fa4e9f was the last commit | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 2017-04-23 | Vipul Naik | 230.00 | Foundation grants | Processed Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grants from IATI at https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf to generate data for insertion in donations database. Code available at https://github.com/riceissa/gates-foundation-iati-processing -- run the commands there and then pass the generated SQL to the donations database | ||
| Issa Rice | Donations list website | Data entry | Laura and John Arnold Foundation | 2017-03-22 | Vipul Naik | 60.00 | Foundation grants | Processed Arnold Foundation grants to generate data for insertion in donations database. Code available at https://github.com/riceissa/arnold-foundation-grants and insertion code can be pasted from https://github.com/riceissa/arnold-foundation-grants in MySQL | ||
| Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | Understanding different editing patterns on Wikipedia | 2017-03-11 | Vipul Naik | 100.00 | Wikipedia | Added functionality to wikidossier to compare multiple users and do multiple namespaces for a single user. The interface is not yet public. However, you can visit https://github.com/riceissa/wikidossier for the underlying code. The last commit covered by this pay is https://github.com/riceissa/wikidossier/commit/ae343d95b27bb0cb65fcf886f96591cabd6d25ca (2017-03-11) | ||
| Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | Understanding different editing patterns on Wikipedia | 2017-03-03 | Vipul Naik | 200.00 | Wikipedia | Research produced profiles of different kinds of Wikipedia editors, and an interface to generate a report on the trajectory of Wikipedia editor. The interface is not yet public. However, you can visit https://github.com/riceissa/wikidossier for the underlying code | ||
| Issa Rice | wikiHow | Preliminary research | Optimize Your Amazon S3 Costs | 2016-12-03 | Vipul Naik | 170.00 | Amazon Web Services | Investigated comparison of different cost plans by Amazon and when each one is optimal | ||
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Backups | 2016-11-28 | Vipul Naik | 100.00 | Wikipedia/Backup | Setup for periodic backup of all important Wikipedia content for easy recoverability | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Help pages | 2016-11-21 | Vipul Naik | 25.00 | Wikipedia | List of help pages in all language Wikipedias | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Special pages | 2016-11-20 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Wikipedia | List of special pages in all language Wikipedias | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | distrib.py | 2016-11-19 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Wikipedia | Code to show bar or line plot for distribution of Wikipedia pageviews | ||
| Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | N/A | 2016-11-15 | Vipul Naik | 80.00 | United States migration/Survey research | Investigation into correlation between estimates of foreign-born and unauthorized population and state-level values of the population | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Wikipedia Clickstream | 2016-11-04 | Vipul Naik | 130.00 | Wikipedia | Processing of Wikipedia clickstream data set for use in Wikipedia Views. Successfully integrated in Wikipedia Views 2016-11-25 | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | graph.py | 2016-10-13 | Vipul Naik | 80.00 | Graphing | Add graphing capabilities to Wikipedia Views | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | Tag entries in different languages | 2016-10-04 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | Wikipedia Views | Wrote code to translate tags en masse to new languages. Code still exists, plan is now to incorporate into Wikipedia Views itself to avoid need to run separate code | ||
| Issa Rice | LessWrong | Preliminary research | Revisiting the great decline in Wikipedia pageviews | 2016-10-03 | Vipul Naik | 925.00 | Wikipedia | Started on it at ~$100/day pay, slowed down, then we realized a lot more toolkit improvements are needed before we can push out the post | ||
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Wikipedia tag page list translation | 2016-09-30 | Vipul Naik | 150.00 | Wikipedia | Code to translate pages in bulk from one language to another, executed for various language pairs and lists. The completion date is approximate. The payment was finalized on November 8 2017, and will be included with the 2017 tax year | ||
| Issa Rice | None | Coding | Model for estimating the value of a Wikipedia page | 2016-08-29 | Vipul Naik | 40.00 | Wikipedia/Contract work | Initial work piloted on a small subset of timelines, gives an estimate of the total money due based on attributes of the timeline | ||
| Issa Rice | Wikipedia Views | Coding | pageviewQueries.inc | 2016-01-31 | Vipul Naik | 80.00 | API integration | Add ability to query Wikimedia API for pageviews |