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[super] Tutorials especially for scripting #52

Open rufuspollock opened 11 years ago

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

Tutorial listing the main functions
Mapping
Loading data
Create a plot

Integration

Help button in the script editor
Link to this from the default script that gets created for you
Tutorials
[x] House Prices Tutorial - #89
[ ] Geocoding tutorial - #28 (what data do we want - perhaps lobbyfacts, or nigeria oil spills or ...?)

General Thoughts

Many useful examples require ability to load multiple datasets => we must be able to load remote data as part of the scripting.
- More strongly: does a focus on a single dataset in a project make sense? Refine does that but ...
Geocoding also requires external access
Scripting Library

For scripting to be really useful we need some standard functions

[ ] plot(dataset, config, name) - #69
[ ] loadData(urlOrConfig, ...).done(function(dataObject) {}) - could we just use bits of recline atm? - #74
[ ] geocode - #68
[x] saveDataset
[x] direct xhr ... - #66
External access

=> We need an ajax library - see #66

Use Cases

Cleaning

Population from World Bank: https://github.com/datasets/population/blob/master/scripts/process.py
Geocoding - #28 (but which dataset ...)
Merging / Transforming
Deflating (taking out inflation)
- UK home prices - https://github.com/datasets/house-prices-uk
- stock market, ...
Per-capitizing
Miscellaenous
Doing sums ... (how useful ...)
Binning (pivot tables ...)

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

TODO: merge this and #47