[ckan-discuss] Options to store cleaned-up data

Sun Oct 31 23:32:15 GMT 2010

For: My 'user story': I have a spreadsheet that I've cleaned up and want to provide back to the community so that the clean-up process doesn't need to be repeated. I want to upload that somewhere easily and forget about it.

I use Spotfire to store the cleaned up spreadsheets, do statistics and visualizations,  and provide back to the commmunity as CSV downloads. Usually I forget about it but sometimes I think of more to do with the data or other data sets to include with it.

Brand
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tim McNamara 
  To: rufus.pollock at okfn.org 
  Cc: Brand Niemann ; CKAN discuss 
  Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 7:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [ckan-discuss] Options to store cleaned-up data

  On 1 November 2010 12:08, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

    On 31 October 2010 23:01, Brand Niemann <bniemann at cox.net> wrote:
    > I have focused on working with a number of US government data spreadsheets
    > with high quality that are updated regularly and would not suggest using
    > blobs of data as alternatives since one looses the ability to do
    > analytics/statistics on those data.

    Quite agree Brand, but I'm not sure Tim meant pure 'blobs' (i.e.
    opaque binary objects). I took hime to mean he wanted to dump his copy
    of the data (probably in structured form) somewhere else -- be that an
    upload of a spreadsheet to google docs, or storing a structured dump
    (json/csv/rdf) somewhere (e.g. archive.org/storage.ckan.net/s3 ...)

    @Tim: is this understanding correct?

  I used the term blob to imply binary blob. I don't want to create an infrastructure to provide hosting for cleaned-up versions of PSI. Naturally, this is a poor solution technically, but it's easier for me as an intermediary.

  My 'user story': I have a spreadsheet that I've cleaned up and want to provide back to the community so that the clean-up process doesn't need to be repeated. I want to upload that somewhere easily and forget about it.
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