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I saw an old demo from Microsoft research in their programming by example group. The idea was to figure out how to extract (json-shaped) data from websites give
by dan-robertson 7y ago
I saw an old demo from Microsoft research in their programming by example group. The idea was to figure out how to extract (json-shaped) data from websites given a few examples of where that data was by the user. The video on this site reminded me of that. I think this presents a better interface than MSR and by restricting to tabular structures of data (as far as I can tell), I think the system is easier to understand and likely more reliable.
- yaseer 7y agoWe do indeed restrict ourselves to tabular structures of data, both on the web-page level and outside. Many non-technical people think in terms of spreadsheets and tables. If you give people the spreadsheet/table as the data structure primitive through which you're iterating, they get the concept of a loop straight away. Couple that concept with teaching them a variable, and they can achieve a lot.
- dan-robertson 7y agoI think a tabular model is probably a good idea