[ckan-dev] [okfn-labs] Some further improvements to Recline Data Explorer

[Pedro Markun]

Will beta-test it this week to help out, then...

Was going to do some work with Refine, let's see how much I can accomplish
with recline :)

[]'s
Pedro Markun

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 16 March 2012 02:13, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> > The demo looks totally sweet. Would it be useful to get some user
> > feedback? I bet I could coral a few people to play around with things.
>
> Yes - would love to get more feedback! I'd really like to do a proper
> public release soon so I'd love to get some feedback now.
>
> More new features (would have mentioned yesterday if gh-pages had been
> building ...):
>
> * New graph types (bar, points, points and lines)
> * Hover on points in charts (and hover shows correct labels e.g. try
> it out in first example below)
> * Bar charts use labels where x-values are non-numeric (see demo below)
>
> Example (using the demo data):
>
> <http://okfnlabs.org/recline/demo/#graph?graph={
> "group":"label","series":["y"],"graphType":"bars"}>
>
> More exciting real-data example: Mortality stats for london boroughs
> from London DataStore found via PublicData.eu [1] (note how it uses
> all our features of url / hash configuration):
>
> <
> http://okfnlabs.org/recline/demo/?url=http://data.london.gov.uk/datafiles/health/mortality-gender-borough.csv&backend=dataproxy#graph?graph={
> "group":"Area","series":["Number
> of deaths"],"graphType":"bars"}&reclineQuery={"size":33,"from":0}>
>
> NB: i'm well aware of mess in labels at bottom (though hover also
> shows the label as well). There is a patch for vertical labels in flot
> but has not made it into main yet ... [2]).
>
> Rufus
>
> [1]: http://publicdata.eu/dataset/deaths-and-mortality-ratios-borough
>  <
> http://publicdata.eu/dataset/deaths-and-mortality-ratios-borough/resource/d30ade61-f5e2-4301-b508-a10cf3a97d46
> >
>
> [2]: https://github.com/flot/flot/pull/15
>
> > On 16 March 2012 13:51, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> >> I demo'd latest version of Recline at the Labs show and tell Tuesday.
> >> I've since done a few more tweaks, which you can see here:
> >>
> >> <http://okfnlabs.org/recline/demo/>
> >>
> >> * Move to bootstrap fully for dropdowns and menus giving nicer styling
> >> around buttons and dropdowns
> >>
> >> * Added support for storing query state in the url e.g.
> >> <http://okfnlabs.org/recline/demo/#?reclineQuery={"size":2,"from":0}>
> >>
> >> * Dropdown menu for search controls containing simple pagination with
> >> changing of from / size (offset / limit)
> >>
> >> * Added support for loading from a query paramemter url in the demo so
> >> you can share links with people e.g.
> >> <
> http://okfnlabs.org/recline/demo/?url=http://data.london.gov.uk/datafiles/health/mortality-gender-borough.csv&backend=dataproxy
> >
> >>
> >> * Support for guessing google doc json url from simple google docs url
> >> (want to see a google docs spreadsheet in recline just do
> >> .../recline/demo/?url={gdoc-url}&backend=gdocs)
> >>
> >> One thing I've been thinking hard about but not reached a clear
> >> conclusion on is where to put functionality like filters and facets in
> >> the UI. Sepcifically:
> >>
> >> * Where should they get created from (e.g. from main search drop down,
> >> from somewhere else)
> >> * Where should facets live (both options and set values)? (Classic
> >> approach is Mark's great work with <http://okfnlabs.org/facetview/>)
> >>
> >> Something like http://documentcloud.github.com/visualsearch/ seems
> >> quite nice and very compact but it would not work for complex use
> >> cases like those Mark has (where he allows for year ranges and the
> >> like). Basically: how complex do these things need to be ...
> >>
> >> Rufus
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> okfn-labs mailing list
> >> okfn-labs at lists.okfn.org
> >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-labs
>
>
>
> --
> Co-Founder, Open Knowledge Foundation
> Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
> http://www.okfn.org/ - http://blog.okfn.org/
>
> _______________________________________________
> ckan-dev mailing list
> ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/attachments/20120317/b6247227/attachment-0001.html>