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In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120452#2226245, @brion wrote: > Population of every US census place for every 10-year census since 1790. That's probably a lot. Now add more columns for various breakdown information. Argh. :-) The 'right' (but more complex) solution for that kind of problem is not to try and hack a multi-dimensional dataset into a 2D representation, but to represent it faithfully. However, AIUI that's outside the scope of this work — which I think is a pity. https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-vocab-data-cube-20140116/ is the work I nominally sponsored on this back in the day. It's actually an RDF encoding of the (non-SemWeb) https://sdmx.org/ standard (XML-based ISO standard, widely used in the stats community). More concretely, Excel's "PivotTables" feature is essentially mapping normalised nD data from a 2D format back into an (interactive) series of 2.5D cuts of said data. Ish. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120452 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Yurik, Jdforrester-WMF Cc: Jdforrester-WMF, brion, ThurnerRupert, intracer, TerraCodes, Pokefan95, gerritbot, -jem-, Bawolff, MZMcBride, Alkamid, Milimetric, Thryduulf, JEumerus, MarkTraceur, Yurik, Matanya, ekkis, matmarex, Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, Steinsplitter, StudiesWorld, DannyH, Riley_Huntley, D3r1ck01, Izno, JAllemandou, Wikidata-bugs, aude, El_Grafo, Ricordisamoa, Shizhao, Fabrice_Florin, Mbch331, Jay8g, Krenair, jeremyb _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
