Aug 22 2008
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You’re supposed to update these blog things “regularly” ?
Although our site is now public, there are a number of features we want to add in the coming weeks and months. Our aim is to produce a website that will make it easier for you to analyze, display, present and share your information. Over time, we plan to add a number of tools to guide you in exploring your data. Just to give you a sense of where we are headed, these are our rough development goals.
Near term upcoming features include:
- speed (we continue to profile and hack the code to improve responsiveness)
- summarizing and aggregation of information (e.g., if you add a time series with daily observations, group and summarize them by month)
- improved data importing (so we do the heavy lifting of pivoting your tables, concatenating column headers that are spread across rows, etc. into a format we can more easily chart)
- joining data sets together to produce new charts
- data units (you upload dollars, we keep track of that and let you specify what kind of dollars, etc.)
- updatable data sets (you can re-upload a data set or if you have imported a google spreadsheet, we will automatically pull in changes, etc.)
Medium term features include:
- revamped user interface
- small multiples (many charts, laid out together in space)
- print-quality table layout (sometimes a table of numbers is the best way to make your point!)
- more annotation tools (e.g., trend lines on charts)
- handling geographic data (plot it on maps)
- box plots
Longer term features include:
- full presentation creation
- social networking (more tools to share, discuss, rate and review data, charts and presentations)
- magical fairy things of which we can not speak
Obviously, all of this is subject to change. And if you have a suggestion, please let us know.
Jason
