2015-01 Introducing OpenAPI
The OpenAPI project attempts to make it easier to connect people with data. This document discusses some of the challenges faced in connecting people with data, and how OpenAPI addresses these...
View Article2015-04 Helping people to connect with data
This articles explores the problem of helping people connect with data. In the first section I examine the importance of connecting people with data, and look at why people are not fully connected with...
View Article2016-01 OpenAPI version 0.3
The OpenAPI project aims to help people connect with data. OpenAPI is a software architecture for wrapping component pieces of data analysis – datasets, programming scripts, etc. – in reusable modules....
View Article2016-04 An OpenAPI Pipeline for CPI Data
This report documents the creation of an OpenAPI pipeline from information on a web page that explores CPI data. The purpose of creating this pipeline is to make it very easy to replicate the plot from...
View Article2016-05 An Improved Pipeline for CPI Data
This report provides an update on a previous report, “An OpenAPI Pipeline for CPI Data”, which described the construction of an OpenAPI pipeline to produce a plot of CPI data. Two issues were...
View Article2016-06 An OpenAPI Pipeline for NZ Crime Data
In March 2016, the NZ Herald ran a week-long series on NZ crime data, including an interactive map, which shows the total number of crimes per region (for July 2015 to December 2015). Harkanwal Singh...
View Article2016-07 OpenAPI version 0.5
The OpenAPI architecture is designed to help people connect with data. The architecture specifies an XML schema for wrapping pieces of data analysis code in modules, and combining modules in pipelines....
View Article2016-08 OpenAPI version 0.6
This report describes changes to the OpenAPI architecture in version 0.6. Module host elements were implemented in OpenAPI version 0.5; version 0.6 has extended module hosts so it is possible to...
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