alminac

Visualizing data

When Visualizing Data using the methodology offered in the linked book, you have seven tools at your disposal. The seven tools, in the order you generally use them, though sometimes shifting forward or backward a few times, are:

1. Acquire Obtain the data, whether from a file on a disk or a source over a network.
2. Parse Provide some structure for the data's meaning, and order it into categories.
3. Filter Remove all but the data of interest.
4. Mine Apply methods from statistics or data mining as a way to discern patterns or place the data in mathematical context.
5. Represent Choose a basic visual model, such as a bar graph, list, or tree.
6. Refine Improve the basic representation to make it clearer and more visually engaging.
7. Interact Add methods for manipulating the data or controlling what features are visible.

This methodology is applied when producing the data for this project and the terms and methodology may be referred to often. It's a fantastic book, and I recommend picking it up and learning a bit about the Processing programming language.

Development Log and Notes

• Mission 1: A reliable, repeatable recipe data store :facepunch:

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

I will generally try to be in #alminac on freenode.net as well.

Links

Helpful things to know about:

• MCP (Mod Coder Pack): provides a means to get to the most reliable crafting recipe data (so far determined)
• MCP Releases: Shortcut to releases page
• http://www.modcoderpack.com/website/content/mcp-910