> > On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Smith, Tim wrote: > > Now I can show-off all the interesting things facets can do to reduce > the complexity and assist navigation of n-dimensional data graphs. > > There is more on its way. The new version that I am working on will > have optional slider widgets for numeric values and I plan to add union > queries and possibly hierarchical facets.
I give a big "thumbs up" to hierarchical facets! That is something I always wanted to be able to do and I've never seen it done in any application - including all of the large Business intelligence platform vendors. It would really make subProperties worth modeling! Of course you could expand that to enable a taxonomy to become a facet such as using a SKOS vocabulary as a facet where the class of interest uses the vocabulary to classify itself via some property. Sliders are great for dynamically changing the data, especially when the data is shown in some graphical form. You might also consider sliders for dates so you can see how things change over time. In a former life, I was an avid Spotfire [1] user and made extensive use of sliders to walk people through complex, temporal datasets - they made huge leaps towards enabling people to understand the data. Another thought is how to define a facet that is not really a property on the class of interest but is on a property path related to the class of interest. As a trivial example... consider the class "Report". Let's say Reports are published in a specific Country. Reports have Authors. Authors have Employer. Suppose I want to examine the set of Reports that are published in the US and Australia by Authors that work for IBM. Essentially, properties of the values of the facets (Author is the facet, Employer is the property of Author) become filters for what is displayed as values for each facet. Of course I could just run a construct query to temporarily connect the Report to the Author's Employer... and I just realized that what I am describing is essentially a Snowflake Schema one would find in a dimensional data warehouse... [2] [3] > > > > As follow-up, in the blog posting [1], it is mentioned that you can > customize the display using SWPs (using ui:id="facetSummary") as well > as specify what properties can be used as facets, etc... > > > > Is there more information available regarding these customizations? > I looked in the help as well as uispin.org and associated uispin/swp > resources but there is no information about Faceted Search. > > Additional information is in the file facet.topbraidlive.org/about.html > - well hidden away from the eyes of curious users. I should have > mentioned this somewhere. Thanks! Never would have found that on my own. Tim [1] http://spotfire.tibco.com/products/spotfire-professional/exploratory-data-analysis.aspx [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_schema [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snowflake-schema-example.png -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
