Make a metric.table!

[void-elf]

... in bottom right corner, includes a "edit on github" button.

As a last resort, use: from IPython.display import html.

[pde]

Let's use this branch for this.

[pde]

In it, the Metric class is in taxonomy.py, so you should be able to more sensibly add methods to it there.

[void-elf]

What was the scope of this issue again? Was it just displaying a nice table based on the measurements for that specific metric (and if so, why isn't this part of #46)?

And what were we going to do with the "edit on github" button? I vaguely remember something about letting users modify the data via CSVs.

Also, how does this table look:

[pde]

1. It wasn't part of An alternative browser/visualization based on D3 #46 because it predates An alternative browser/visualization based on D3 #46. I'm still resisting using JSON+JavaScript for all of our data display, but I can maybe be talked into it.
2. The table is the nice way we show all the results now that the raw data is being moved into separate python files, which can be edited in a nice way with links like this
3. Your table above looks like a good start! Will make a slightly more polished example here in a sec

[pde]

Here's what I imagine this looking like:

Date	Algorithm	Result	Paper
2015-06-10	Attentive Reader	63.0	Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend
2015-06-10	Impatient Reader	63.8	Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend
2015-06-10	AIA	63.8	Iterative Alternating Neural Attention for Machine Reading
...	...	...	...

edit this data on Github

[pde]

(except the "edit this data on github" link would be smaller and right-aligned?

I'm wondering whether to

1. use the Papername as a hyperlink, as shown above; or
2. have a separate paper name and URL; or
3. Papername as hyperlink plus the explicit arXiv paper ID, where applicable, since those are sometimes useful

[void-elf]

I will stick to #1 (papername as hyperlink). I don't think adding the arxiv ID (pictured below) is all that helpful or nice to look at:

Date	Algorithm	Result	Paper
2015-06-10	Attentive Reader	63.0	Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend (arxiv ID: 1506.03340)
2015-06-10	Impatient Reader	63.8	Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend (arxiv ID: 1506.03340)
2015-06-10	Impatient Reader	63.8	Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend (arxiv ID: 1506.03340)
zebra stripes	are neat	$1

[pde]

In some cases we'll want to add ± on the result (if min_val / max_val are not the same as the result) . Not sure how best to represent date ranges, either writing out the full range or just adding a *

[pde]

There are probably more columns we'll want to add either now or in the future. For instance links to source code (which currently are occasionally in the replicated field), or any notes that may be attached to the Measurement object.

[pde]

But let's not worry about those immediately.

[void-elf]

@pde So, I'm done making tables. For the "Edit me on GitHub" link, I've noticed that not all the data has been moved into the /data directory. Are you working on moving it, should I do it, or should I just skip anything that hasn't been moved for now?

[void-elf]

I'm still resisting using JSON+JavaScript for all of our data display, but I can maybe be talked into it.

One advantage of using JSON or CSV files for storing data is that if people already have data lying around that they want to give us, it'll already be in a usable format. What we have now is very, very unusual by data analysis project standards and might scare people away (and requires them to know Python if they want to submit a PR, instead of a much more widespread data representation language).

[void-elf]

Most recent commits on this: 136152f

Here's what the table looks like right now:

Right-aligning the <p> element is mysteriously not working, but perhaps that's for the best, as the "Edit me" link won't accidentally visually blend into all the other links in the right column and more people are likely to see it.

edit: also right now the default "Edit me" link leads to the github page. I still need to edit the data_url field on all the metrics, but I need #44 (comment) answered.

[pde]

Looks good in general! Obviously the computer chess/wikipedia case is a little weird but we can worry about that later...

[pde]

Maybe the column title should be Paper / Source for now

[void-elf]

I can't seem to get the table to render unless in each cell I explicitly include:

from IPython.display import HTML
HTML(metric_name.table())

I tried refactoring it into the table function with no luck. This seems less than ideal, as we'd have to include this in every cell we wanted tables to be displayed in. Can someone think of a more efficient way?