Second Life Grid Survey - Economic Metrics by Tyche Shepherd : The Princess welcomes a big step in data transparency

The Palace of Yaximixche has welcomed with enthusiasm the new economic metrics information available from Second Life and carefully created by Honourable Ms Tyche Shepherd.

The beautifully designed website gridsurvey.com provides access to different databases of regions, incidents, Lindex Market data, economic metrics, and and clear graphics. Data and graphics are available from previous years and visitors can compare the development of Second Life according to different aspects, like users, land size, expenditure or business profits. Moreover, the recent and well crafted article "2009 Reviewed" of Second Life by Mr Ciaran Laval complements nicely all this data. Also developers can use the Gridsurvey APIs publicly available and under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK license.

 

The Princess expressed : "Ms Sheperd's website with economic data will provide a bright light in the darkness that Second Life's economy has been immersed recently. Residents, business and organisations will be able to plan their investments with more certainty. We all must thank and congratulate her for this excellent work and that she has been carrying out selflessly for a few years already. I have fond memories of receiving information about regions status within SLUniverse forums and that have become an important topic of discussion in-world and the Internet"

One of the areas where this data will be useful for is Second Life's economy analysis. For example, as many residents have already predicted, the land market and other important indicators as L$ expenditure and number of residents logged-in have remained without any increases in the last part of 2009 and therefore the SL's economy has not improved and maybe is suffering of stagnation in detriment of hard-working land owners, builders, artists and scripters.

At the moment Lindex data is available back to 17th October 2009 only. Princess Manqo encourages Honourables who have access to old data previous to this date to donate it to this public repository by contacting Ms Tyche Shepherd in-world.

Her Royal Highness commented that this type of initiatives helps in improving Virtual Worlds understanding and transparency and need more support, promotion and involvement by Virtual Worlds' providers. This valuable data will be used by the Honourable Members of Parliament of Virtual Worlds during debates on the economy of Second Life and other Virtual Worlds.

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