Hello you all. As some of you know, we have been using Tableau to index our reviews. Alas, it is a crude system for this use and highly limited as far as what we can do with their free service. The paid version is hugely expensive and it is not clear it solves the problems we have with it. Performance is horrible and presentation is poor despite tremendous work our few members have put in to make it work.
So I thought I get help from membership to create a back-end that I can then embed in the forum to provide a much better user experience. For version 1, I like to just get the index in a more legible and performant way. For version 2, we can look at comparing measurements/graphs and such. For the former, @pozz has been kind enough to maintain an extensive database. The data for the latter doesn't exist yet in ready form and hence not focusing on it now.
@pozz can explain how he is maintaining the data right now. Perhaps he can create a sample we can work against. Hopefully we have some developers willing to put in the time to do this. There is no pay though and what you write becomes our property to use.
This would also be a good thread to discuss what we want out of the new service/interface.
There is an option to use forum software API to develop the UI but I am not clear if that is a good choice. It can open up security issues and using the API may be limiting.
I will leave it to @pozz to lead the project at high level but he would need a technical lead as well.
Anyway, we really need a good system here given the mountain of reviews we already have to organize and present in a better way. I hope I can count on your help to get us there.
Thanks,
So I thought I get help from membership to create a back-end that I can then embed in the forum to provide a much better user experience. For version 1, I like to just get the index in a more legible and performant way. For version 2, we can look at comparing measurements/graphs and such. For the former, @pozz has been kind enough to maintain an extensive database. The data for the latter doesn't exist yet in ready form and hence not focusing on it now.
@pozz can explain how he is maintaining the data right now. Perhaps he can create a sample we can work against. Hopefully we have some developers willing to put in the time to do this. There is no pay though and what you write becomes our property to use.
This would also be a good thread to discuss what we want out of the new service/interface.
There is an option to use forum software API to develop the UI but I am not clear if that is a good choice. It can open up security issues and using the API may be limiting.
I will leave it to @pozz to lead the project at high level but he would need a technical lead as well.
Anyway, we really need a good system here given the mountain of reviews we already have to organize and present in a better way. I hope I can count on your help to get us there.
Thanks,