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• What is datascope? Datascope is a platform for visualizing massive data. Datascope generates dashboards that are interactive and the visualizations are coordinated. This can be used to slice/dice the data and generate different views.
• Cool! So how do I get started? Start by installing Datascope locally. Now generate a Hello world dashboard using Titanic survivor data. TUTORIAL
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• What does the demo do? The demo should present a dashboard similar to the ones below: (Links to dashboards). The left pane is called interactive filters and the right pane is called visualizations . Click and interact with the interactive filters to slice and dice your data. Note that all the visualizations are coordinated!
• Smooth! How does it work? It uses four configuration files present in public/config:

  • dataSource.json: tells datascope how to fetch the data

  • dataDescription.json: What are the different attributes of the data and their data types.
  • interactiveFilters.json: The filters on the left hand side of the dashboard
  • visualization.json: The visualizations on the right-hand side.
• If you're using data from flat files then you should put your data in data/
• Well the titanic dataset is a bore! Can I use an interesting dataset: Sure! Datascope accepts data from in csv or json format from files, REST APIs, and Databasesdatabases.
• Configuring these dashboards is a pain! Are there any tools to help me out with this? You can use the Datascope Author

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  tool to generate dashboards. This will provide you with a neat interface to generate configuration files that you can use with Datascope. It's quite unstable though :(.
• How can I start contributing?
  • Take a clean dataset (collection of awesome public datasets) and generate a Datascope dashboard. A nice dataset with interesting results would be a plus.
  • This tells us that you're able to install it and have an understanding of configuring it.
  • File issues that you face while setting up your dashboard.

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