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

Thu Dec 13 15:20:44 UTC 2012

Daniel,

I'd rather have a general type detection for these cases - e.q. figure out
how time can look like and if it looks like time: display as time...

Michael

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 02:09:46PM +0100, Daniel Lombraña González wrote:
> As I said, only if it was easy :-) The problem is the format then, right?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>wrote:
> 
> > 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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> intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino PDF, HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV
> o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un
> fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él.
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