Data Introduction
Data can be imported from multiple sources across the web, or from your hard drive.
This page collects resources that describe the steps to loading data into your
desktop or
page,
inlcuding information regarding transforming, editing and securing data.
For a listing of some common data feeds, please see
data center
Data in the Desktop or Page
In order to make data usable, it usually needs to be imported into your desktop or davinci page. In addition, you may
want to transform the data to something more usable than what the data is in its raw format.
- Adding Data to your desktop or page
- Transformations :
after data has been loaded into the davinci environment, transformations can be applied to the data in order to
produce the desired results.
- Editing Data
Hosting Data
Hosting data refers to users of the system making their data available to users of the platform
who dont have access to the data from their local hard drive,
either by hosting it on the davinci platform
or by hosting on one their own servers.
- Hosted
- data that you own that is hosted on the davinci platform. Requires no servers, hardware, or administrators.
- Hosting
data that you own that you host on your own servers and make securely available to selected users
on the davinci platform.
Topics
Video Demos
Data Introduction
Gives a basic high level overview of data on the platform.
Loading Data from your Hard Drive
Shows how to load data from a file into your desktop using the
data app.
Loading Data from the Web
Most data sources will be hosted on a web server and accessible across the internet. When no
app is available for loading the data, the data can be loaded by providing the data URL
in the data app.
Real Time Data
Shows examples of dealing with real-time data on the davinci platform.
For a more detailed tutorial/demonstration, please see
derivative risk.
Saving and Connecting to your data on Davinci
Shows how to save data on the davinci servers for users who do not have their own webservers.
(see also
davinci hosted data)
