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August 01, 2005

Web Issues

The web would be even better if we could compare more and more information.

Problem: You can define the web either to be human readable or machine readable. It is not both. For instance I can present some data as a HTML table. This is presentation. For a user who would like to view this table differently, sort it, slice it, or combine it with data available from another source in one page is impossible. I cannot even have the simplest task of saving this data separately as a comma separated values (CSV) file for my offline analysis. Take the example of comparing housing prices side by side with school ratings, crime database etc so parents can determine which neighborhoods are well suited for their needs and means. Can we do this today? No.

 

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Posted on August 1, 2005 05:44 AM by House 78.
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