I've been wanting to do a similar kind of project for a long time. Just haven't found anyone else who was interested.
So, if anyone wants to try to build something like this, send me a note. Jordan On Jun 18, 2:11 pm, Vincent <vincent.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good question. Don't know. My guess is that if you just want to show > the data in a view using data structures Django knows might be > quicker. However, if you are going to process the data (graphs, > summary stats, etc.) you might prefer to have numpy arrays to work > with. > > Vincent > > On Jun 18, 2:02 pm, Blaine Booher <frik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for the link, Vincent. Is it easy to have the django view system > > (generic views) use a PyTables data structure, or would that be a pretty > > large feat by itself? > > > Definitely worth considering, pyTables boasts great performance. > > > Blaine > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Vincent <vincent.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > If you have a lot of data pytables may be an option (see link below). > > > It can store data as numpy arrays directly rather than having to > > > convert to such an array after reading from an sql database. > > > >http://www.pytables.org > > > > Vincent > > > > On Jun 18, 1:15 pm, Blaine Booher <frik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thank you Rajesh, Vincent, Nick, and Hernan for the helpful suggestions. > > > > This is definitely a route I am going to explore. I'll post some > > > > updates > > > to > > > > the list if anything comes out of it. > > > > > Would you recommend importing the data into django models and tables, or > > > > keeping the db separate and independent? > > > > > Blaine > > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Hernan Olivera <lholiv...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > I think it would be really great if you can interface with R too. > > > There`s a > > > > > library to acces to R power from Python, and then from Django. > > > > > > 2009/6/18 Nick Fishman <bsdlogi...@bsdlogical.com> > > > > > > A friend of mine is using Django with matplotlib to create graphs from > > > CSV > > > > >> files, and it's turning out pretty well. I haven't yet tried > > > googlecharts, > > > > >> but it looks promising. > > > > > >> The main difficulty he had with Matplotlib was transitioning to > > > > >> Apache/mod_python after working with the Django development server. > > > The > > > > >> Matplotlib commands he was calling worked fine on his desktop, but > > > then > > > > >> complained of a non-existent X11 connection once he tried the code on > > > > >> Apache. The solution is one additional line of code, and is detailed > > > at > > > >http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html#matplotlib-in-a-...have > > > similar problems. > > > > > >> Nick > > > > > >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Vincent <vincent.n...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >>> That sounds like a great idea. Something i have been meaning to try > > > > >>> for a while but haven't gotten around to. > > > > > >>> For a class website i did try to use matplotlib to create graphs > > > > >>> from > > > > >>> user provided data within django but couldn't figure out how to get > > > it > > > > >>> to work smoothly. Ended up using Jacobs googlecharts templates > > > instead > > > > >>> (see link below). > > > > > >>>http://github.com/jacobian/django-googlecharts/tree/master > > > > > >>> The following also looks nice. > > > > > >>>http://code.google.com/p/google-chartwrapper/ > > > > > >>> Hope you share code examples. > > > > > >>> Vincent > > > > > >>> On Jun 17, 4:21 pm, Rajesh D <rajesh.dha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >>> > On Jun 17, 2:06 pm, blaine <frik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >>> > > Hey guys, > > > > >>> > > I have a lot of data from various testing samples (simple 2D > > > > >>> > > plotting points) in .csv format. I am looking to design a > > > > >>> > > system > > > to > > > > >>> > > manage things like plotting, calculations, selecting individual > > > > >>> > > samples and tests, etc. by creating a data manager with an > > > intuitive > > > > >>> > > interface. > > > > > >>> > > My question: Has anyone used (or heard of using) a > > > > >>> > > Django-powered > > > > >>> > > application as a quick and powerful frontend to a scientific > > > > >>> database? > > > > > >>> > > It seems to me that the tools built into Django (administration > > > site, > > > > >>> > > generic views & templates) would lend themselves quite easily > > > > >>> > > for > > > > >>> this > > > > >>> > > purpose... not to mention that I am already using NumPy and > > > > >>> MatPlotLib > > > > >>> > > to plot my data sets so the integration with these tools would > > > > >>> > > be > > > > >>> > > easy. > > > > > >>> > Yes, it should be. > > > > > >>> > You might even consider taking a representative subset of your > > > > >>> > datamodel and defining it in a sample Django project to see how > > > that > > > > >>> > goes. > > > > > >>> > -RD > > > > > > -- > > > > > Hernan Olivera --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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