Dnia 2013-09-27, o godz. 10:18:15 Alan Schmitt <alan.schm...@polytechnique.org> napisał(a):
> 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, Interesting question. And although it is probably of no use for me, I'd love to see an Emacs-based tool to do that... > Alan Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University
