Re: [Plastic-devs] Docs moved

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

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, John Taylor wrote:

> R Holbrey wrote:
>> 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
>> 
> Hi Richard - interesting- how would this information be consumed by 
> third-party apps?  [Can you suggest any that could display it?].
>
> J

I was thinking firstly of the drop down menus to select axes in various 
tools, which could be organised to display 'hot' items first. Later on we 
might want to display transformations of the data (eg pca), although it 
may be advantageous for eirik to do this, or at least to have a separate 
window.

Rich