HI David, Is it necessarily bad if sage-cell expands beyond its original intenteon? I don't see any harm if sage-cell is used beyond its original context. Many ideas start from one point and end-up being something else, but sage-cell can still do both.
For me, sage-cell has been very useful because I can use it to run codes without necessarily depending on my local computing environment. I can use a mobile or any other internet-connectes device to do so. It has eliminated barriers in terms of space and time, and in terms of technology too. I have never used sage-cell to embed computations on the web so far, even a single one. In the current context, I want to use it to immediately read data from KoBotoolbox and do analyses. It is a matter of copying the code and paste it into sage-cell and get results, no need to carry my laptop everywhere or depend on my desktop. Students enjoy doing the same too. Kind regards, Elimboto On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, 15:12 David Farmer, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know anything about this particular request, > but it seems to me that sage cells are moving beyond their > original intention. > > The purpose of sage cells is to embed computations in a web page. > That is, I create a web page which allows you to do computations > in the context of that page. > > Sage cells are not intended to be a complete computing environment. > Such environments exist: SageMath, CoCalc, Mathematica, Maple, etc. > Those are the tools to use for research and extensive calculations. > > I see a risk in trying to have Sage cells fill a role for which they > were not intended, and for which there already exist superior > alternatives. Specific concerns are: the drain on the (free to users) > server which the cells use, work load for the (essentially volunteer) > maintainer, and potentially compromising the ability of sage cells > to be successful at their intended mission. > > Regards, > > David Farmer > > > On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, Elimboto Yohana wrote: > > > Hi Andrey, > > > > I was struggling with a cumbersome method to import survey data from > KoBoToolbox > > (https://www.kobotoolbox.org/) into Google sheets to be analyzed using > SageCell and just discovered > > that there is a package that can read data from KoBo directly. > KoBoToolbox is a free and > > open-source suite of tools for field data collection, very suitable for > use in challenging > > environments. > > > > I request whitelisting KoBo URLs: > > > > - https://kf.kobotoolbox.org > > - https://ee.kobotoolbox.org > > - https://kobo.humanitarianresponse.info > > > > and the installation of the Python package koboextractor: pip install > koboextractor > > (https://pypi.org/project/koboextractor/) > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Elimboto > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sage-cell" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to > > [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visithttps:// > groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-cell/CACEZTmvK84JmYGbk9NNf3HxTGTRamMXsGXXDFroJoaE4L%3DqzDg% > > 40mail.gmail.com. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-cell" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-cell/alpine.LRH.2.21.2108220758570.30625%40li375-150.members.linode.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-cell" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-cell/CACEZTmu9gzoJcvVRt3WcKSS%2Bqg_Z4WowBBFHwbhJsTAy0mpxoQ%40mail.gmail.com.
