Return of the... maintaining data in view when switching to data/upload and back to vis

[cncoleman]

With a Grand Tour save file, I'm not able to create a table view, view the data/upload and return to table view. Table has disappeared.

[esjewett]

Some time ago this started happening even if no change were made to the data. I'd like to address this, but it is kind of difficult technically. Will look into it though!

[cncoleman]

This came up in the History of Science ThatCamp yesterday.

[jodyp]

I had a similar issue. All the data was uploaded and everything was working perfectly. Then I took my laptop from my office to a meeting in the conference room across the hall and everything disappeared.

[jodyp]

Is there a way to have Palladio behave more like a platform for public facing DH data projects rather then just as an end user tool for one-off data viewing? Which is to say that the data for a given project would be hosted locally and remain static, the parameters would be set on the back end while end users could still engage with the data interactively by selecting subsets of the data and using different views?

[esjewett]

@jodyp Thanks for the heads-up. The current setup doesn't really lend itself to that platform-like approach. Generally, if you have a setup that you want to want to save persistently, then it is best to create a save file using the "Download" button. That should save all your data, visualization setup and filters and can then be reloaded whenever you want.

As far as specifically what happened to you, it's hard to say, but it sounds like the page reloaded, unfortunately.

We'd love to be a more persistent platform, but that would require ongoing maintenance and due to the nature of these types of grant-funded projects we wanted to make something that could continue working long after grant funding expired. We do have the Palladio Bricks tools that we are working on publishing in a re-usable way (they already exist - Palladio is built on them - but they are not well documented), and those could be used to build a platform like what you are asking about. /cc @quinnanya

[jodyp]

@esjewett How did the Republic of Letters use Palladio to achieve the results on their project site? See for example http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/casestudies/voltairepub.html

[esjewett]

@jodyp Republic of Letters was a pre-cursor of Palladio. It doesn't use Palladio, though a lot of the design approaches influenced Palladio's design, which is why it often looks quite similar. If you are looking to do something like this, it is possible using Palladio Bricks and @quinnanya and I can help to walk you through that process. It's not pretty, but it's tractable if you're comfortable with Javascript and web hosting.