From: Gu Z. <g...@ze...> - 2008-12-08 10:54:15
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I agree that having to go through all values anyway it should be easy to provide in addition to the sum also min, max, mean, average values. I have these types of return values already in my SemanticQueryFormTool extension and at least the mean value is rather useful where one wants to distinguish in a display (e.g. GoogleMaps) if a value is above or below the average/mean value. Cheers, Gu --- On Sun, 12/7/08, Jie Bao <ba...@cs...> wrote: > From: Jie Bao <ba...@cs...> > Subject: Re: [Semediawiki-user] Adding a 'sum' format for inline queries > To: "Yaron Koren" <ya...@gm...> > Cc: "Semantic MediaWiki users" <sem...@li...> > Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 11:58 PM > I vote for Semantic Result Formats > > It may also make sense to have "average", > "max", "min". > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Yaron Koren > <ya...@gm...> wrote: > > Hi, > > It's been brought up before on this mailing list, > but it would be very > > helpful, in some circumstances, to have a > 'sum' format for #ask queries, > > that, for a query set to "display" a > property of type Number, would return > > the sum of all the values of that property. Such a > format would also > > probably not take more than an hour or two to > implement. Is there a reason > > such a thing hasn't been added, or it just that no > one's done it yet? Also, > > in what extension would it make the most sense to add > it? Presumably it > > would be in either Semantic MediaWiki or Semantic > Result Formats. > > -Yaron > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 > in Las Vegas, Nevada. > > The future of the web can't happen without you. > Join us at MIX09 to help > > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and > register at > > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Semediawiki-user mailing list > > Sem...@li... > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > > > > > > > > -- > Jie > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~baojie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in > Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join > us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register > at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > Sem...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user |