Re: Timeseries Data Collection as a Reusable App

2014-03-14 Thread RLange
Thank you all for the great input. Russell, your design I think will make the best framework - after all, defining and registering a model is hardly more difficult than defining each model in the settings. Plus, I'm realizing now that each *type* of data may come with its own particular functio

Re: Timeseries Data Collection as a Reusable App

2014-03-12 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On the model side, to facilitate a generic visualization layer, you could also consider an abstract parent class where you standardize time series information that isn't the data. For my time series data, I have this: https://github.com/jonathanmorgan/django_time_series I built a few django ti

Re: Timeseries Data Collection as a Reusable App

2014-03-11 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:42 PM, RLange wrote: > I'm currently working on an app for browsing and visualizing time-series > data. Each point of time-series data may be a mix of Strings, Floats, and > Ints. In my current design, I have a separate model for each of my data > types, and I have been

Re: Timeseries Data Collection as a Reusable App

2014-03-11 Thread C. Kirby
Like number 2 but a little more amenable to searching https://github.com/bradjasper/django-jsonfield On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:42:24 AM UTC-5, RLange wrote: > > I'm currently working on an app for browsing and visualizing time-series > data. Each point of time-series data may be a mix of Str

Re: Timeseries Data Collection as a Reusable App

2014-03-11 Thread Jason Arnst-Goodrich
Without knowing much about your specifics, I would suggest looking into MongoDB. You'll have some of the issues in #2 and you obviously won't have a generic app that people without Mongo can use but I'd at least look into it before you go any further. On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:42:24 AM UTC-7

Timeseries Data Collection as a Reusable App

2014-03-11 Thread RLange
I'm currently working on an app for browsing and visualizing time-series data. Each point of time-series data may be a mix of Strings, Floats, and Ints. In my current design, I have a separate model for each of my data types, and I have been writing a new view for each one. In other words, my a