[okfn-labs] Data Transformer renamed to Data Explorer http://explorer.datahub.io/ - plus lots of improvements

Michael Bauer michael.bauer at okfn.org
Thu Dec 13 11:59:47 UTC 2012


Daniel,

I think the issue is more complicated than just this... How about timestamp
(as e.q. commonly created by google forms) etc? 

Michael

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:55:03PM +0100, Daniel Lombraña González wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm testing it right now and I've found that when you select the time field
> for the charts, Flotr2 is not using the "time" format. I don't know if this
> could be fixed easily, but it will be really awesome to have that feature.
> 
> Including the time format is as simple as this in any Flotr2 chart:
> 
> graph = drawGraph({                    xaxis: {
>     mode: 'time',                            },
> });
> 
> 
> Thus, if you detect that a column is called "time", then, the chart
> should use that "mode" for the chart :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Wanted to let people know that the data transformer [1] has seen quite
> > a bit of improvement and has also been merged with the existing Data
> > Explorer taking on its name and url:
> >
> > <http://explorer.datahub.io>
> > <https://github.com/okfn/dataexplorer>
> >
> > [1]:
> > http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2012/07/31/data-transformer-cleaning-up-data-in-the-browser.html
> >
> > Improvements:
> >
> > * Full viewer including slickgrid Grid, Leaflet map and Flotr2 graph
> > (from recline multiview - this is really what the previous data
> > explorer was)
> >
> > * Import data from multiple sources including gdocs, CSVs, github etc
> >
> > * It has the start of a data "Project" and workflow. The project
> > includes the dataset (source), scripts (for processing the data),
> > views (such as config for specific graphs and maps) [2] [3].
> >
> > In particular, info about datasets you load are stored in local
> > storage so you can easily reload when you come back to the site. This
> > is very rudimentary and at the moment you can only store one project
> > (this can be fixed in one line but I won't get to this until next
> > weekend!)
> >
> > I also plan to add support for storing scripts etc very soon (next
> > would be serialization of all of this to gists or github repos).
> >
> > [2]: https://github.com/okfn/dataexplorer/issues/24
> > [3]: https://github.com/okfn/dataexplorer/issues/25
> >
> > * Github login in a popup and is not required for normal use
> > https://github.com/okfn/dataexplorer/issues/21
> >
> > * Direct load datasets from url parameter config which means you can
> > share links for people e.g.:
> > <
> > http://explorer.datahub.io/?url=http://resources.opendatalabs.org/datasets/standard-and-poors-500-shiller/data/data.csv&backend=csv
> > >
> >
> > NB: you cannot just link to any old CSV on the internet at the moment
> > but need one on a server with CORS support (NB: s3 and google storage
> > support CORS now, hurrah!). however we could fix this by adding in
> > support via DataProxy ...
> >
> > * Save to github working again thanks to Martin Keegan
> >
> > Rufus
> >
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