About Series

Series are the fundamental data type throughout dataZoa. They may also be referred to as time series or data series.

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:

• A Title, like Rainfall
• A Frequency, like Weekly
• Units of measurement, like millimeters
• and potentially many others, like footnotes, synonyms, etc.

To keep things orderly, every dataZoa series also has:

• A dataZoa Series Key - a unique identifier like MyAccount/00004328
• Privacy controls - Public/Private/Selectively Shared

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.