concerning larger data sets in Exhibit

[John Callahan]

Concerning larger data sets... From my experience, Exhibit works well
up to a couple of thousand entries (of course, depending upon exact
amount of data, client computer capabilities, processing, etc...)
Although this serves most of my needs, I've come across a few instances
that need "just a bit" more power, say 5K - 15K entries. Probably not
quite large enough to run Postgres or Solr for a single table. I'm
curious if the following would work.

Say we have 10K items of student data for 5 schools. Each student has
roughly the same data attributes (address, classes, height, grade). I
can break up the data for each school into 5 separate data sources, each
with 2000 items. When the Exhibit page loads, I would only load the
first data source:

< link ... href="school1,js" >

Then, the user would click on buttons to load the other school's data.
(It's easy to add a link element to the page head.) Exhibit would then
load this new data source, in addition to the first or maybe replace the
first school's data if necessary. As other school data is loaded,
assign each data source to its own collection and dynamically modify the
collectionIDs through js for views and facets.

Does Exhibit have the potential to handle this? Thanks for your thoughts.

- John

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John Callahan
Geospatial Application Developer
Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware
227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501
Tel: (302) 831-3584
Email: john.c...@udel.edu
http://www.dgs.udel.edu
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[harshal]

Hi John,

Following thread might be interesting for you -

http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/browse_thread/thread/2b6aa1f4cd61c1d8/bf151a0fa6c145ac?lnk=gst&q=gears#bf151a0fa6c145ac

./harshal

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[David Huynh]

John,

We use Exhibit for making this "course picker" for MIT

http://picker.mit.edu/

Once you already pick a course (department), you can load more courses
dynamically using the drop down near the top left corner.

(Try this in Firefox as it's still using Exhibit 2.0, which has bugs on
IE8.)

David