About Series
Contents
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, preserve your series keys. The keys are used in your displays and calculations, and they need to match up for the new values to flow through.
Types of Series
Depending on where they originate, series are classed into different "types", with appropriate implications:
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
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.
Maintenance
Permissions
Any series in your account can be kept fully private, made public, or selectively shared with known individuals.
