Arctos Tableau Data Dahsboard and querybot handover

[Michelle S. Koo]

Hello Arctos users, if you have been attending the Arctos Working Group meetings you may have seen demos and updates from the UCDavis MSBA fellows to broadly increase accessibility for Arctos users (see Arctos Project). Specifically they built the Arctos Tableau dashboard-- link is available on the Arctosdb.org footer or check it out here on Tableau and the Assistive Query bot allows the user to ask natural language questions to fill out the search fields as a way to relieve the burden on nontechnical users. Both are solid beta products.

The Master students will have a handover meeting this Friday at 11 am (Pacific Time), so please let me know if you would like to attend this technical meeting (details will also be documented in the practicum repository if you cannot make it.)

all the best, MK

[Bryan McLean]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

 

I cant make the meeting but am curious – is the tool just designed to query/summarize collection stats and metadata? Or can you query at the record level?

 

Bryan

 

Bryan McLean

Associate Professor

Department of Biology

University of North Carolina Greensboro

www.mclean-lab.org

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[Michelle S. Koo]

HI Bryan, for now the Tableau dashboard takes the global stats and visualizes them, as well as takes the filtered flat export and summarizes spatial and taxonomic data. So high-level summaries of public data. For collection specific queries, we are working on a more ambitious portal based on indexed files of the entire filtered flat. That portal is in its baby stages and clearly needs to have discipline specific indexing-- for now: biological, cultural and geologic but I think we will need a paleontological one too. We have had a lot of infrastructure work on this since we are trying to run elasticsearch ourselves on a Berkeley server so not quite ready for community input on which fields to index. If we had a grant, then work on this could be prioritized, and I think we have a pretty good pilot right now. Meanwhile, keep you posted and will let you know when we are ready for the next stage!

Best, MK