Hail Query Community Feedback 2023Q4
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If you have never heard of "Hail Query", but have heard of Hail: Hail Query is what you think Hail is. We recently added some new products (Hail Batch, Hail FS), so we renamed the core library to Hail Query.

If you're not a current user of Hail Query, focus on the questions prefixed by [***].
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For what tasks do you use Hail Query?

(e.g. GWAS, annotating datasets, joint calling, exploring data, plotting, PCA, ld pruning, relatedness)
Describe a typical workflow or project in which you use Hail Query.

(e.g. chips, exomes, or genomes? how many samples? do you run PCA, LD pruning, GWAS, allele frequency, or annotation? how often do you do this kind of analysis?)
[***] What tools do you use other than Hail Query?

(e.g. Pandas, PLINK, SAIGE, matplotlib, R, specific R libraries, Excel, Google Sheets, NumPy, PyTorch, KING)
[***] For what kinds of tasks are these other tools well suited?
How many hours per week do you use Hail Query
An hour or two
If I'm not in a meeting, I'm Hail-ing
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[***] How many hours per week do you use analysis tools other than Hail Query?
An hour or two
If I'm not in a meeting, I'm using these tools
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[***] When using Hail Query or another analysis tool, how much time do you spend ...
0-20%
20-40%
40-60%
60-80%
80-100%
Thinking about a plot or other output
Implementing an analysis in code
Waiting for an analysis to execute
Something else
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[***] Other than using Hail Query or other analysis tools, what does your job entail?

(e.g. designing experiments, collecting data, writing papers, mentoring)
If Hail Query did not exist, what tools would you use in its place?
[***] What analysis task of yours is the most time consuming in terms of your time?

Please consider both tasks for which you DO and DO NOT use Hail Query.
[***] What analysis task of yours is the most time consuming in terms of waiting for a program to execute?

Please consider both tasks for which you DO and DO NOT use Hail Query.
If you are a current Hail Query users: What was your biggest challenge when getting started? What is your biggest challenge today?

(e.g. docs, forums, social atmosphere, methods, speed, installation, bugs)
[***] If you DO NOT use Hail Query: What could change to encourage you to use Hail Query?

(e.g. docs, forums, social atmosphere, methods, speed, installation, bugs)
Which of these resources have helped you use Hail Query?
Where have you used Hail Query?
[***] Please share any general feedback here.

For example, a specific feature request or general concerns about speed, usability, etc.

For feature requests and critiques, please include a 1-5 rating where 1 is a minor improvement and 5 would save you a week of effort or enable an otherwise impossible task.
Demographics questions
Thanks for answering all the questions! Now we have a quick demographic survey.
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For how many years have you done analysis of sequencing call sets
For how many years have you used Hail?
You are currently employed by a:
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