http://simonwillison.net/2009-10-26T09:34:34+00:00Simon Willison2009-10-26T09:34:34+00:002009-10-26T09:34:34+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/26/toiling/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://berglondon.com/blog/2009/10/23/toiling-in-the-data-mines-what-data-exploration-feels-like/">Toiling in the data-mines: what data exploration feels like</a></strong></p> Useful advice from Tom Armitage on the exploratory development approach required when starting to build a project against a large, complex dataset. Tips include making sure you have a REPL to hand and using tools like gRaphael to generate graphs against pretty much everything, since until you’ve seen their shape you won’t know if they are interesting or not. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/berg">berg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data">data</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/exploratoryprogramming">exploratoryprogramming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphael">graphael</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphing">graphing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming">programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/repl">repl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tom-armitage">tom-armitage</a></p>