Hi everyone
Merry merry, and enjoy a good, peaceful family time.
On the note of FarmOS, I am looking for ways to visualise/feel/use my data a bit better.
Right now, I log log log, everything (which is ideal to managing stuff here, activities, seeding, harvesting and 90% of the time, observations).
I disabled calender, for one, since it kept giving problems with compatibility, but Calender is not enough. My question is, do you guys have any favourite or recommended ways you look back at data, find data without going the whole records - logs - search - wall of text route?
Graphing certain metrics, having page based lists of specific topics/keywords, that sort of thing?
I think I might be missing a lot of what everyone else is doing. Or, it feels that way.
Hi Pat
I use that one, it’s useful indeed.
My wording was a bit silly. I am trying to find ways to visualise my data in terms of graphing and reporting, rather. I have many logs, and when I look them up, they are just walls of text without any meaning (that I can use to plan or make adjustments).
A graph could show things like declines or improvements, and reports can give me an overall picture of whats going on in the tunnels. I am wondering if others have ideas or suggestions, or how they use FarmOS to represent aeons of collected data.
Edit:
I use Node-Red to help me put data into farmOS.
Perhaps a dashboard there to display your data could help too?
It has graps, tables etc… Takes some learning, but it’s a pretty useful tool
ChatGPT also works very well to help eventual coding in Node-Reds function nodes.
I too would love to see more graphing integrated directly into farmOS! And I’m curious if/how/what others are doing with their data outside of farmOS to accomplish this! Experimenting in Node Red/Grafana/Jupyter/Spreadsheets/etc is a great first step IMO, but if there are generally-useful ideas and approaches it would be awesome to see them developed into official modules in the farmOS UI!
For historical reference, farmOS v1 had graphs of sensor data. This was not ported to v2, however, due to time/resource constraints. Here is the open issue for that: https://www.drupal.org/project/farm/issues/3203015
I’ve also always wanted to see some general purpose graphing features in the “Quantity” Views… so you could filter to certain types of quantities and automatically see a graph. Here is the open issue for that: https://www.drupal.org/project/farm/issues/2941620
It’s been a while so I need to refresh, but I think that one of the big hurdles was deciding on and adopting an open source graphing library in farmOS core. I know some folks have experimented with things, but I’m not sure where that all left off.
The other hurdle (for farmOS core), of course, is that solutions need to be generalizable. There are so many possible use-cases for farmOS record keeping that a lot of the graphing/visualization possibilities tend to assume very specific workflows or data conventions. But we have to start somewhere! The beauty of a modular system is that anyone is free to experiment in custom/contrib modules, and if others find it useful it can work it’s way “upstream” to become part of core!
This is true Mike.
I think it’s one of the reasons I (and many) are scared of diving into porting old modules to 2/3 etc. If we get entrenched on them, and don’t have time in the future, then we are stuck. So I like to use solutions that are more or less standard. Also good for data hygiene.
I am putting my ideas into some experiments for the graphing. Will see.
Have a good 2024.
