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Revision as of 11:30, 30 January 2017
Series are the fundamental data type throughout dataZoa. They may also be referred to as time series or data 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
Sharing
Any series in your account can be kept fully private, made public, or selectively shared with known individuals.
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.
