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<div class="imgGlyph24 imgConcept"></div> <b><i>GroupLists</i></b> are shorthand way of working with sets of series in your account. | <div class="imgGlyph24 imgConcept"></div> <b><i>GroupLists</i></b> are shorthand way of working with sets of series in your account. | ||
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| + | === Highlights === | ||
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| + | <li>Grouplists are <i>named</i> as you like</li> | ||
| + | <li>The series in a grouplist are <i>ordered</i> as you like</li> | ||
| + | <li>One series can belong to <i>any number</i> of grouplists</li> | ||
| + | </ul> | ||
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| + | === Ideas === | ||
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| + | </div> | ||
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| + | ====Build displays from grouplists==== | ||
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| + | </div> | ||
| + | ====Build grouplists from displays==== | ||
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| + | </div> | ||
| + | ====Simplify series housekeeping with grouplists==== | ||
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| + | </div> | ||
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| + | === Example === | ||
Suppose you are comparing health outcomes for three countries; Japan, Korea, and China. You pull the same 12 series for each country from the UN statistics database. This gives you a pool of 36 series to work with. You might first make three GroupLists, named JapanHealth, KoreaHealth, and ChinaHealth. You might then add a group list called LifeExpectancy, with just one series from each country, | Suppose you are comparing health outcomes for three countries; Japan, Korea, and China. You pull the same 12 series for each country from the UN statistics database. This gives you a pool of 36 series to work with. You might first make three GroupLists, named JapanHealth, KoreaHealth, and ChinaHealth. You might then add a group list called LifeExpectancy, with just one series from each country, | ||
Revision as of 12:43, 23 February 2017
GroupLists are shorthand way of working with sets of series in your account.
Contents
Highlights
- Grouplists are named as you like
- The series in a grouplist are ordered as you like
- One series can belong to any number of grouplists
Ideas
Build displays from grouplists
Build grouplists from displays
Simplify series housekeeping with grouplists
Example
Suppose you are comparing health outcomes for three countries; Japan, Korea, and China. You pull the same 12 series for each country from the UN statistics database. This gives you a pool of 36 series to work with. You might first make three GroupLists, named JapanHealth, KoreaHealth, and ChinaHealth. You might then add a group list called LifeExpectancy, with just one series from each country,
A GroupList has a name, like ""
Common Features
All Series are a set of numbers, ordered in time, representing some phenomenon at various points in time. As such, they share some common features.
Series Attributes
- A Title, like Rainfall
- A Frequency, like Weekly
- Units of measurement, like millimeters
- and potentially many others, like footnotes, synonyms, etc.
Series Key
Every dataZoa series has a key, formed of the owner's account name and a serial number, like MyAccount/00004328:
- Globally unique
- Never recycled
- Automatically assigned, except...
- If you are replacing your your own data, be sure to preserve your series keys.
Types of Series
Depending on where they originate, series are classed into different "types":
Live or auto-updating
These come from other sites around the Web via the dZ-Dot, and dataZoa remembers where they originate, updating them for you as the sources change.
Uploaded
These are series you load in from your own files (or even just copy and paste). As such, you are responsible for keeping them up to date.
Calculated
A calculated series is the result of a dataZoa ComputeCloud formula. dataZoa updates these automatically by keeping track of their ancestors.
Contributed
These are series that you set up initially using dZSlates, but new values are entered by others, from outside your account.
Series Ownership
Every dataZoa series "belongs" to a particular account, and that account has complete control over what happens to that series.
That being said, series can be shared and borrowed among accounts according to permissions granted by the series owner.
Series Maintenance
Series maintenance involves deleting, editing, and controlling access to your data. See more on series maintenance here.
