How Top User Expertise Is Calculated

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Alation calculates top user expertise for a data object based on several factors:

  • Number of the user’s queries that mention the data object;

  • Number of times the user added comments, titles, or descriptions to the data object page;

  • Nomination by other users.

Each user has a Catalog page where their expertise is listed, along with the Catalog objects they are connected to and the queries they have written.

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Upvoting and Downvoting Top Users

On schema and table Catalog pages, Alation automatically lists Top Users.

To upvote or downvote a Top User, the user must already be listed as an expert.

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