JimWright wrote:Hmmm. What kind of data are we talking about? The way I figure it, we ask people to input the drink they got from a list and to score the experience for taste/quality, service, and perhaps atmosphere, and take some comments. We amalgamate the comments, average the numbers (perhaps throwing out high and low scores), and post for places with x or more reviews. The data itself doesn't seem so difficult to me as setting up the inputs on the board, and deciding what x should be, but I'm probably missing something...?
I have a friend who often uses the phrase "everything works well on paper". Your outline of the scope of the work is accurate, I think, but partial when you go to the details. Zagat has a questionnaire they developed for doing their surveys, it will need to be adapted to coffee. Since the problem I see in artisan shops is the straight shot, and not generally their other drinks, rating them on everything else will dilute the focus. If you are in the mood to come up with the details, and administer the survey (collect the data and normalize it), why not? If so, perhaps a separate post here should be the zagat like questionnaire you propose, which will allow other members to comment on it and hopefully come up with an agreeable format. After that, a dedicated post, bearing the template of the questionnaire can be the platform HB members will use to submit their reviews.
