What would you most like to see in the next release?

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Please vote on what new feature you would most like to see in the next release:

  • Copy/Paste items from/to the Center pane
  • Dashboard view to show multiple charts
  • Grouping box to group items in the Center pane
  • Human readable audit report listing all items and options selected
  • More powerful Javascript transform
  • Process parallel items in separate threads for greater speed
  • A new transform to call an external program
  • Input multiple files matching a wilcard (e.g. *.csv) as a single stacked dataset
  • Something else (add below)
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(Some of the big items, such as input from API and SQL databases probably won’t happen before v3, so aren’t listed here)

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In case multiple selections would be possible, I would select the following ones. The number are the priority of the three topics.

  1. Copy/Paste items from/to the Center pane

  2. Grouping box to group items in the Center pane

  3. Human readable audit report listing all items and options selected

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Would a grouping box enable:

  • Content hiding for compactness?
  • Copy/paste of the grouped component?

If so, that is my vote.

Other highly desired feature is Copy/Paste in the centre pane.

Given charts exist, it would simplify life for me (less application switching) if we had two related improvements:

  • in the correlation table, an indicator of significance at a preset level
  • linear regression line in the chart

While either of enhanced javascript or (better for me) running external programs seem attractive, they seem also to be off the main game of EDT. Parallelism is nice but I am yet to find EDT slow in my use cases.

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Content hiding for simplicity might be a good idea. I don’t know about compactness though. But if you ‘collapse’ the box into a smaller one, you can’t really place other items next to it, or they will be obscured when you expand it again.

Only if we implemented copy/paste as well.

Do you mean in the output produced by the Correlate transform?

That is on the wishlist.

I’m sure if we add linear regression, people will also ask for exponential, polynomial etc. ;0)

We try to be as comprehensive as possible in the transforms, but we will never be able to cover 100% of cases.

I’m sure there are people who would like Easy Data Transform to be faster.

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It would need to expand as an overlay with opaque background.

Yes.

The inevitability of feature creep is one reason I was cautious about charts in the first place, and prefaced my remark with “Given charts exist.” :slight_smile:

No doubt, and I have always the need for speed :smiley: . I am but part of the voting population.

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I guess that could work.

Can you mock up an example of what you think that would look like?

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Will do. You will probably get a night’s sleep first, given TZ. :slight_smile:

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Straightforwardly, create a highlight for numbers which meet a preset level of significance (default p < 0.05). The figures in the correlation table are already in bold so I chose italic. An alternative would be colours coded for p-levels 0.1, 0.05 and 0.001 rather than adding a preference to set the level. This adds nothing to use of screen real estate. The self-correlations are not italicised for obvious reasons.

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By the way, the italicised figures of -0.484 are not in fact significant; I was just grabbing some handy data, and the scatterplot shows that even that modest relationship is skewed by two outliers, otherwise random.

(edited to clarify)

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This could be done as part of a heatmap feature and that is already on the wishlist.

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Colour coding, heat map, it all works for me.

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DuckDB Connector

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We would like to be able to input (and perhaps output) DuckDB, SQLite and SQL databases. it won’t be in the next release though.

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I thought this was multiple choice :smiley: , so the first/only item I selected was not, to me, the most valuable option. I would most appreciate the ability to invoke external programs or scripts, also the human readable audit report would be very helpful.

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I think you can check again on the option you selected, to unselect it.

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I checked, and none of the items were shown selected (though my vote was in the result). Rather than click again on the one I did before and run the risk of stuffing the votes :smiley: I tried clicking on the external program integration and it shifted my vote to that option in the tally. Thx!

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Converting data from PDF’s into tables which can be then manipulated