Social Data Statistics Web Part for SharePoint 2010

Social data is SharePoint 2010 is going to be a next great feature in my opinion, Microsoft is doing a great job in helping developers to understand what social data is all about and how to write componentn to enhance and do perform basic BI on social data. One of the things I found is on the interweb recently is Social Data Statistics Web Part.

It come with a source code and here is what it’s all about:

Each URL that has been tagged, and the terms with which each URL has been tagged.

Each term that has been used in a social tag, and the number of times that term has been used.

Each user who has added a social tag, and the number of times that user has tagged URLs.

Here are some of the things I had to do to get it working on my dev server:

Great tool once you get it running.
Here are some of the things I had to do to make this solution work first time.

1. Once you open the solution (SocialDataStatisticsWebPart), in properties window specify: SIte Url to equal http://[site]/[subsite]/
2. Now the solution will deploy to the site you specified. Add a VisualWebPartProject1 webpart to the page from Custom category.
3. If your page errors our with ASPX error saying that it cant find the control for this webpart, navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES and rename SocialDataStatisticsWebPart to VisualWebPartProject1.

Here is what I got when ran this tool on my site:

Enjoy!