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martzcodes / gt-course-surveys

Helping students assess course difficulty and workload.
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allow exporting of the data #11

Closed cmeury closed 8 years ago

cmeury commented 8 years ago

Concerns were raised on Google+ about hiding the community's data behind a closed database. We might need to think about adding an export functionality to make sure we can periodically backup the data in case of any emergency. Maybe a simple CSV exporter would be sufficient already.

Relevant part of original comment: "not [..] comfortable with taking our shared spreadsheet and putting it behind a locked database. The spreadsheet was a shared resource, everyone could make a copy of it, download it and modify it anonymously. Your site [..] the dataset is not available."

mehmetbajin commented 8 years ago

The data is not locked down. You can access it through the following RESTful API:

https://gt-surveyor.firebaseio.com/reviews.json https://gt-surveyor.firebaseio.com/grades.json

It makes sense to add these APIs to the FAQ.

mehmetbajin commented 8 years ago

Resolved with version 2.