Archive for November, 2012

CUBRID donation helps SOFA project

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

CUBRID Logo

More good news for the SOFA Statistics project – CUBRID recently donated $300 to SOFA Statistics. CUBRID is “a comprehensive open source relational database management system highly optimized for Web Applications” and SOFA recently added a plug-in to connect to CUBRID databases.

It was also great to see the support that CUBRID gave to a range of other projects. One of the interesting things was the range of countries represented: New Zealand (SOFA Statistics), Switzerland, South Korea, Kenya, Russia, Australia, Denmark, Romania, China, Spain, Germany, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the USA. Truly a global effort.

So on behalf of the SOFA project, thanks 🙂

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SOFA Wins People’s Choice Award

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Great news! SOFA Statistics won the 2012 People’s Choice Award in the NZ Open Source Awards. Thanks to everyone who voted in support.

NZOSA Trophy

In addition to the trophy and framed certificate I was lucky to get a nice new Android tablet from Zareason (http://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html). Busy playing with that at the moment.

And SOFA was also a finalist for the Best Open Source Project award.

NZOSA Awards

So it was a great awards ceremony for the project.

Awards Ceremony Speech

Video of Open Source People’s Choice Award (Presented by ZaReason)

Video of finalists for Open Source Software Project (SOFA one of 3 finalists)

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1.3.0 brings numerous improvements

Sunday, November 4th, 2012

SOFA 1.3.0 has plenty of small but important additions:

  • Added Mode as an option to Row Stats report tables. Reports mode(s) with N of the mode value(s) e.g. mode weight 72.0, 76.0 (N=23)

    Modes available

  • Line and area charts can show major labels only as an option.
    All labels (the default)

    Major labels only

  • Pie charts now have option of displaying count and percentage (not just in the tooltips as at present).
    Pie Chart Details option available

  • Histograms use consistent bins when charted by a second variable.
  • Better placement of y-axis title when wide labels.
  • Pie charts keep consistent colours even if sorted by count rather than value or label.

    Consistent category colouring in Pie Charts

  • Better message when adding new reports if required subfolder with javascript and background images is missing. Only show message now if a problem.
  • When trying to export report, SOFA checks for expected subfolder as well (otherwise dojo fails for any charts and export fails).
  • SOFA prevents attempt to export report if no report file (yet).
  • No longer displays View or Export Report buttons on Projects dialog.

And there have also been some important bug fixes making it worth upgrading:

  • Fixed bug in row stats where data should have explicitly filtered out None values.
  • Fixed bug in setting of min and max values for y-axis for boxplots when min is below 0.
  • Refactored code for running report in output module. Easier to understand and also made it easy to save copy of internal html output with absolute paths to images – very helpful when exporting images.
  • Built more robust value quoting e.g. for sql statements.

I hope you like it.

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