christopherreay / thisEqualsThat_frontEnd

Online, collaborative pipeline for visualising information

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Develop API schematic / documentation #19

Open visualtools opened 8 years ago

visualtools commented 8 years ago

3 APIs

data modelling:
representation:
heads-up-display:

Using http://swagger.io/ !?

visualtools commented 8 years ago

google scripts api !?

christopherreay commented 8 years ago

Current APIs

data modelling:
representation:
heads-up-display:

Using http://swagger.io/ !?

Data Modelling API

Provides a framework to represent complex dataset including
- Equations with dependency analysis
- access to any linked data set
- currently integrated with google sheets

Model Visualisation API

Provides tools to encourage effective visualisation of data.
- Quantity or Volumetric representations
- 3D animations to help convey meaning
- Good set of examples

Heads Up Display Plugin API

Framework to allow user interaction with Visualisations generated by the Model Visualisation API
- Plugin initialisation and state management
- Full control over all aspects of the user interface
- Sane defaults
- Good set of examples