Re: [Plastic-devs] Docs moved

[R H. <ric...@co...>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, John Taylor wrote:

> Hi All,
> I've taken the "agreed" Plastic messages and put them up onto the main site 
> http://plastic.sourceforge.net/coremessages/html
> leaving the wiki page for us to argue about new messages.  While I'm here I'd 
> like to propose:
>
> ivo://votech.org/votable/selectColumns(id: string, cols: int[])
>
> In the case of something like VisIVO, this would suggest to VisIVO the 
> columns in the table to use for visualisation (perhaps using the ordering to 
> suggest their importance (ie the first 3 get mapped to spatial axes?).  In 
> the case of my Anomaly Detector it's an instruction indicating which columns 
> to run the algorithm on.  In both cases, the message could come from a data 
> exploration tool such as Richard's Eirik.
>
> John

eirik would also like to be able to suggest a tgable of such values, so 
that it would be easy to suggest that column 1 has something in common 
with columns 10 and 15.  This might even be a set of covariances or mutual 
information figures, or should this be a (vo)table?

Richard