Table2Base

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Table2Base is an extension which enables direct upload of data from wikipages to Opasnet Base. Data is displayed as a table in wikipage.

Usage

Example:

<t2b index="Year,Country" unit="#" obs="Mortality">
2001|Finland|1000
2002|Finland|100
2001|Sweden|600
2002|Sweden|800
</t2b>

Displays:

Table2Base(#)

Obs	Year	Country	Mortality
1	2001	Norway	1000
2	2002	Finland	100
3	2001	Sweden	600
4	2002	Sweden	800

Notes:

• index argument defines indices of the datatable:
  • example has 2 indices: Year and Country
  • it is obligatory to have at least 1 index
• unit defines the unit of the variable
  • it is obligatory to define unit
• obs defines the name of the result column
  • obs is optional
  • if not defined default value "Result" is used
• Data is saved only when table is altered and page is saved
• Number of data columns must match to number of indices + result column
• Each row must have equal number of columns
• Table caption is a link to Base UI

⇤1 : The t2b functionality is important. However, the distinction of variables into "index" ja "location" types is ambiguous and arbitrary. E.g. in the dataset...

• municipality, last name, first names, sex, height, weight, blood group

... at least the variables "municipality", "sex", and "blood group" (and in principle any of the other variables too) could be treated equally well as either "index" or "location" type. ⇒ Thus, I suggest that all variables be treated alike in the t2b syntax. --Erkki Kuusisto 15:22, 21 May 2012 (EEST)

⇤2 : It is important that the "unit" can be defined separately for each variable. E.g. for weight and height in the sample dataset above. --Erkki Kuusisto 15:22, 21 May 2012 (EEST)

--3 : Thus I suggest a simplified syntax for t2b:

<t2b variables_and_units=" var_name_1, var_unit_1, var_name_2, var_unit_2, ..., var_name_N, var_unit_N ">

An example with the above dataset:

<t2b variables=" municipality, , last name, , first names, , sex, , height, cm, weight, kg, blood group, , "> --Erkki Kuusisto 15:22, 21 May 2012 (EEST)

Hints for spreadsheet software

If you have your data table in Open Office Calc, Excel, or some other software, you can use these formulas to convert tables into Table2Base code. This example is for Excel, other software may have slightly different syntax. Here, the data is in the spreadsheet in columns A...D. Columns A...C contain index values and column D observations. The first row contains index names and rows starting from row 2 contain data.

Formula for the first row

="<tb2 index="&CHAR(34)&A1&","&B1&","&C1&CHAR(34)&" unit="&CHAR(34)&"kg"&CHAR(34)&" obs="&CHAR(34)&D1&CHAR(34)&">"

Formula for the second row and beyond

=A2&"|"&B2&"|"&C2&"|"&D2

See also

• Previous dicussion about the format of the table

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