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|2000
2001|Sweden|900
2002|Sweden|800
</t2b>

Displays:

Table2Base(#)

Obs	Year	Country	Mortality
1	2001	Finland	1000
2	2002	Finland	2000
3	2001	Sweden	900
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

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

Some old thinking

Syntax which idea is based on:

Table2Base
(Unit: #. Number of explanation columns: 2. Observation index: Observation.

Year	Country	Mortality	Description
2000	Finland	40000	WHO mortality data
2001	Finland	50000	WHO mortality data

• Indexes:
  • year
  • country
• result
  • mortality

Possible solutions:

• we should not use exactly the same syntax as wikipages
• tag or parser?
• ←--1: . are explanation and observation really necessary? Could it look more like this? --13:59, 6 October 2010 Juha Villman (type: truth; paradigms: science: defence)

  ⇤--2: . The title explanation is not necessary. Also the title for observations is only necessary if there are more than one observation columns. For example the data below could be in a format where there are three columns (Country, 2000, and 2001) and only one row for the data. In this case, it is necessary to tell that the heading for the two observation columns is Year, because this heading is used as index name (with locations 2000 and 2001). But is it true that the observation index name does not need to show up as a heading in the table. I changed the Template:Datum list accordingly. --Jouni 15:52, 7 October 2010 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: attack)

Table2Base

Year	Country	Mortality	Description
2000	Finland	40000	WHO mortality data
2001	Finland	50000	WHO mortality data