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User Numbers
Kept here:
V:\TF\Facet II\Users
Summary spreadsheet links to the FACET numbers too so you can see the whole timeline.
People can ask for user numbers at any time of the year but typically the DOE ask in October with a November deadline so we collect those official numbers in November. The spreadsheet that the DOE provides is sent to each PI for them to complete. If we have completed lists from the previous year, or from updates over the course of the year, it saves a lot of time and leads to better QA. So if the lists are updated over the year, be sure to add them to the V drive so at the time of the data call, the updates can be sent to the PI just for them to confirm.
There is usually a later call by the lab for the numbers which gets put into a lab report.
I have had people ask me in the middle of the year for the number of Russian users or the number of users from small businesses etc. It can be quite random.