Tabular Data Manager

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This is the user guide to Tabular Data Manager portlet.


Overview

Tabular Data Manager offers facilities supporting the management of the entire life-cycle(creation, curation, manipulation and publication) of Tabular Resources such as datasets, codelist or generic table. i.e. tabular data representing observations of a given event or phenomenon at different time intervals. Tabular Resource are used in many domains ranging from statistics to signal processing and econometrics. Tabular Data Manager offers a rich set of facilities ranging from those supporting the assessment of data correctness to those supporting the verification of the compliance of data with given code lists, the aggregation and filtering of data.

Tabular Data Manager, portlet


Basic of Interface

Composition of interface :

Ribbon menu
The interface offer on top a ribbon menu, it consists of tabs: Home, Curation, Modify and Analyse.
Tabular Data Manager, ribbon


Tools area
The interface offer on left side a tab panel in which the manipolation tools will be activated.
Tabular Data Manager, tools area


Main area
The interface offer on center side a panel in which the grids with data be activated.
Tabular Data Manager, main area

Basic Operation

The basic operations are those that enable interaction with a tabular resource and are: open, close, delete, properties and clone.

Open

For open a tabular resource yuo must click on ribbon Home and so in group File you select open button. A window will show the list of tabular resource available to the user.

Tabular Data Manager, open

Close

Tabular resource can be closed looking in the main area and clicking on the x next to its name. To close all open tabular resource go into the ribbon menu, home group, and click on close all button.

Delete

Properties

Clone

Grid Menu

When a tabular resource is open, you can access the column header menu and the context menu.

Grid Header Column Menu

Tabular Data Manager, grid header column menu

Grid Context Menu

Tabular Data Manager, grid context menu

Import

CSV

SDMX

Export

CSV

JSON

SDMX

Curation

Split Column

REGEX
For example, the following Tabular Resource when splitted setting REGEX:
Tabular Data Manager, split column by regex
is transformed in:
Tabular Data Manager, split column by regex result
N.B. Value is a POSIX Regular Expression

Normalize

For example, the following Tabular Resource:

Tabular Data Manager, normalize

when normalized setting as normalized column name 'Year', as value column name 'Quantity' and with columns to normalize '1998', '1999' and '2000' is transformed in:

Tabular Data Manager, normalize result

Denormalize

For example, the following Tabular Resource with 'Quantity' column of type integer or numeric:

Tabular Data Manager, denormalize

when denormalized setting as value column name 'Quantity' and as attribute column name 'Year' is transformed in:

Tabular Data Manager, denormalize result

Modify

Analyse

External links

POSIX Regular Expression