Hi James,
For download counts, you could try navigating to the dataverse the holds your datasets and then clicking "Edit" then "Dataset Guestbooks"* and finally "Download All Responses" as shown in the attached screenshot.
I just tried this at
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/open-source-at-harvard and got a CSV with a row per time a file was downloaded. It looks like this:
Guestbook, Dataset, Date, Type, File Name, File id, User Name, Email, Institution, Position, Custom Questions
Default,Open Source at Harvard,07/7/2017,Download,2017-06-30.tab,3035125,Guest,,,
Default,Open Source at Harvard,07/6/2017,Download,2017-06-30.tab,3035125,Guest,,,
Default,Open Source at Harvard,07/7/2017,Download,2017-06-30.tab,3035125,Guest,,,
Default,Open Source at Harvard,07/7/2017,Download,2017-06-30.tab,3035125,Philip Durbin,
philip...@harvard.edu,Harvard University,
Default,Open Source at Harvard,07/31/2017,Download,2017-07-31.tab,3040230,Guest,,,
Default,Open Source at Harvard,08/1/2017,Download,berkmancenter-amber_nginx.json,3040301,Guest,,,
Default,Open Source at Harvard,08/1/2017,Download,2017-07-31.tab,3040230,Guest,,,
Default,Open Source at Harvard,08/1/2017,Download,berkmancenter-brkmn.json,3040297,Guest,,,
Default,Open Source at Harvard,09/24/2017,Download,IQSS-TwoRavens.json,3040238,Guest,,,
Thanks!
Phil