Due to an issue with a Google Maps API update, maps were not functioning on iSENSE. This issue has sense been fixed. If you continue to see any issues with maps, please use the "report a bug" feature that is at the bottom of every page. If you have any questions, please contact Fred_Martin@uml.edu.
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The iSENSE Development Team
The iSENSE team is proud to introduce iSENSE v6.0. This releases offers several new features, bug fixes, UI tweaks, API changes, and more. Interested in learning about what’s new? Keep on reading!
Manually contributing data to iSENSE just got easier with our new data entry table called Slickgrid. Slickgrid makes it easy to add, delete, and edit data. Its very slick (pun intended), easy-to-use interface makes contributing data a seamless experience.
What's great about Slickgrid? It validates all data contributed to projects. For example, it ensures a given latitude and longitude are valid location values. Additionally, Slickgrid makes it easy to enter a timestamp by allowing you to select date and time values on a calendar as shown below.
To use Slickgrid,
1. Go to a project you want to contribute data to.
2. Under Contribute Data, click Manual Entry.
3. Then… Huzzah! You're ready to use Slickgrid.
Click the red "X" to delete rows of data. Click "Add Row" to add a row of data. Click "Save" to save your dataset.
Our contact page got a facelift, AND we’ve added the newest iSENSE members. We are pleased to welcome Samantha Michalka, Anthony Salani, Jason Downing, Jeremy Daigneau, and Tyler Puleo to the team! Visit the contact page to meet our team or get in touch if you're interested in working with us.
Have you ever discovered a bug using iSENSE? Maybe a button wasn’t working or a page didn’t load. Or have you ever thought, “I wish could do _______ on iSENSE...”? If the answer to either (or both) of those questions is yes, you’re in luck.
You can now report bugs or suggest features using our new bug reporting feature. The link to report a bug is in the footer as shown below. Simply click this link to begin the bug reporting process.
All bug reports will be posted to our public issue repository on GitHub.com. Don't have a GitHub account? No problem! You can still report bugs. However, we advise you not to include personal information, e.g. your name or email, in your bug report because this information will publicly be available on GitHub.com. We encourage you to be as specific as possible when filling on the bug reporting form, though.
You now have the option to select all y-axis fields by simply checking the "Select-All" checkbox on visualizations.
We've added a new function to our API that enables you to add a contributor key to a project. Please see the documentation for more information.
iSENSE v5.10 introduces new features for pie charts and summary visualizations as well as improvements to our text editor, Summernote, and visualizations.
Pie charts just got a more powerful with analysis types. Like on bar charts, you can now analyze the total, maximum, minimum, mean (average), median, and row count of your data on pie charts.
You can now save and set defaults on summary visualizations, and we now also support data grouping on summary visualizations to provide you even more ways to display your data.
Our text editor, Summernote, now supports uploading SVG images.
In addition to all these wonderful new features, this release offers many improvements to visualization, project creation, and our text editor UI.
We have added three video tutorials to help you learn how to use iSENSE. Please click the links below to view these tutorials:
http://isenseproject.org/tutorials/11
http://isenseproject.org/tutorials/12
http://isenseproject.org/tutorials/13
Setting Defaults for Visualizations
You can now set default visualization settings to best suit displaying data for a project you own. For example, if data for a project is best displayed on a bar visualization with a number field like temperature on the y axis, you can make this configuration your default for this project's bar visualizations. Every time you visualize data on a bar visualization for this project, temperature will be on the y axis. You can default any visualization setting, such as group by, analysis types, bin size, and so on, on the map, timeline, scatter, bar, histogram, pie, and table visualizations.
Important Note: Group selection (the checkboxes below 'Group By') will not be defaulted.
The control to set defaults for a visualization is in the visualization toolbar as shown below.
In addition to searching for projects by keyword(s), you can now search for a specific project by its project number. A project’s number can be found on the project’s page under the title and owner as shown below.
If you would like to search for a specific project, go the projects' search bar and type in that project’s number. Search will return one and only one result, and that result will be the project with that project number.
Now you can add YouTube videos to project descriptions by just pasting the video link in the editor pane. Find a YouTube video you would like to add, copy the link in the address bar, and paste this link directly in a project's editor pane.
This release also offers bug fixes for the table visualizations and a few UI changes for projects and visualizations.
The iSENSE team has released v5.8 and is excited to introduce the following new features:
Pie charts offer another “delicious” way to visualize and analyze your data.
With configurable floating point precision, you can control the precision of your data to make bar and summary visualizations more readable. For example, 2.349874 will appear as 2.35 if you set your project's floating point precision to be 2.
Four is the default number of decimal points, but you can configure precision in a project’s settings. To access a project’s settings, go to the project page, and click the Edit button as shown below.
On the project's settings page, enter a number into the precision input box to set the project's floating point precision.
Bin sizing controls have been improved to make visualizing data on histograms a more seamless experience. To increase the bin size on a histogram visualization, move the slider to the right. To decrease the bin size, move the slider to the left. You can also manually set the bin size by entering a number into the manual input box.
In addition to these wonderful new features, this release offers new bugs fixes for regression tools, bar chart sorting, and field matching as well as UI tweaks on the embedded visualization pages.
The iSENSE team was down at the 2014 USA Science and Engineering Festival in washington DC. We met a lot of interesting people and got to collect some cool data. We estimated pi. We determined the probabilities behind a plinko board. We even figured out where different eye colors come from .
We hope that you all enjoyed our booth and that you are looking forward to working with iSENSE. If you have any questions please contact us at isenseproject@gmail.com
(we dont have the photo from this year yet, so this is last time) Left to right back to front: Melinda Willis, Hassan Mckusick, Chris Adoretti, James Dalphond, Mike McGuinness, Alan Rosenthal, Ivan Rudnicki, Evana Gizzi, Chris Granz, Michelle Scribner-MacLean, Fred Martin