Multiple "datasets" per project (?)

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Multiple "datasets" per project (?) #55

Open rufuspollock opened 11 years ago

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

Want to be able to have multiple datasets per project representing results of operations on original dataset.

Is this a good idea? Are there other ways to do this.

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

We now have partial support for this via #133 + #126

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

OK so we have backend support for this. Key issue is the frontend and working how UX works ...

How do you switch between datasets (and what does this mean?)
- Guess it means that grid view switches
Does each view (other than grid) have to reference a given "dataset" that it uses (?)
- My sense is yes
Need to code up backend code so that script editor can actually use these datasets (loadDataset needs to get better)

davidmiller commented 11 years ago

Doesn't have to switch... Single view could sanely reference multiple datasets

e.g. line graph comparing two series over time, possibly with different Y axis [1]

Use case: Violent vs. Total crime over time

[1] http://www.d3noob.org/2013/01/using-multiple-axes-for-d3js-graph.html

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

@davidmiller so at the moment a recline "View" holds a reference to a single dataset - so it can't use 2 datasets. This isn't much of a restriction as you just push data into one dataset. For multiple axes what you'd need would be one dataset with 2 different series (plus a tweak to flot graph to support multiple axes).

I asked re switching because what do you do for the "Grid" (do we just create a grid for each table - start to be like spreadsheets with their Sheets tab!)