Hello, This question is slightly off-topic, but it may be of interest to people who have a lot of data entered in org-mode.
The short version: what tools are available to explore data, typically stored in org-mode tables? The long version: I've tried an interesting website (https://tictrac.com/) whose goal is to gain some insight about ourselves by exploring some data we collect (think quantified self). I'm not happy with this site for three reasons: - I need to send it the data; - it focuses on health / activity data whereas there is much more that interests me (I for instance have weekly records of natural gas use in my gas-heated house and daily record of temperature average outside which I would love to compare); - it won't let you input arbitrary data (I asked about importing a CSV of my daily coffee consumption, they answered they require an external service to integrate the data). So I collect all this data because it's something I enjoy doing, and I would really like to explore it, from the comfortable position of my own computer. All of this data is in org-mode tables (or can be easily converted to org-mode table). Hence my questions: are there tools you would recommend? I'm not afraid of programming (I suspect an answer will be 'R'), but I would like pointers to tutorials to do these kind of things. The kind of things I would like to do are: - extract weekly or monthly tallies or estimation from data collected at irregular intervals; - compare data sources against each other; - estimate future trends based on past data (how much will my gas bill be?); - display the result in some kind of dashboard. Thanks a lot, Alan
