access to historical popcon data for research purposes?

[Kaylea Champion]

Dear all,

I'm a graduate student studying under Benjamin Mako Hill here at the
University of Washington. My current research maps trends and risks to
digital infrastructure, seeking to develop models that can predict problems
before they cause failure.

One of my data sources for this work currently is Debian popcon data -- but
I had hoped to move on to Ubuntu next.

I understand that Ubuntu is moving away from popcon, and I wondered if
there's a possibility of accessing historical data so that this information
is not lost. For Debian, I've been using APIs to collect this data, but I
haven't found an equivalent service for Ubuntu. Can you assist? I've also
joined the ubuntu-quality irc channel (kaylea_) in case this is easier to
talk through interactively.

Best wishes and thanks in advance,
-Kaylea
-- 
(pronouns: she/her)
MA/PhD Student, University of Washington Dept. of Communication
Community Data Science Collective, http://www.communitydata.cc