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Scientists don't need tables implemented in their markup. They need tables inside linked files that readers can actually use in data analysis without having to
by wdkrnls 4y ago
Scientists don't need tables implemented in their markup. They need tables inside linked files that readers can actually use in data analysis without having to learn yet another complex technology. The browser could render linked CSV or SQLite files in a nice table widget for instance and people interested in the data could open it up in R and not have to mess around with parsing XML.
- wanderingstan 4y agoHaving a browser that can natively “render” a SQLite file is actually an amazing idea. Some default table-like representation along with a cli would be killer.
- autoexec 4y agoThat sounds like a feature I'd disable (especially if it were something that a browser would try to do without prompting) just because of the odds it'd end up causing major security issues, either because of how it got implemented by the browser manufacturer or due to SQLite itself. I'd personally rather just download the file and handle it outside of my browser. Support for PDF files is bad enough as it is.
- my69thaccount 4y agoIt wouldn't be safe with SQLite, it's not designed to be run in a sandbox
- nurettin 4y agoAre you sure? I see inline benchmark summary tables in every published paper I read.
- welterde 4y agoI think for that it's somewhat less critical, since it's a somewhat less common usecase to take this whole benchmark table and somehow continue data analysis on that. But for things like atomic data or various model setups that you do want to use in your code/your work that's based on the previous paper, having a machine-readable version is a huge time-saver.
- smeagull 4y agoPandas is actually quite decent at extracting tables from HTML. https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.read_html.html https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.read_htm...