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Hello Claude,
I wonder if you have taken a look at the Plugin Tutorial near the bottom of the page at codap.xyz? If you have been through that tutorial and still have questions, perhaps you could point to (or attach) the code you are working on with notes on where, specifically it’s failing?
Bill
Hi Travis,
Yes, I’m afraid you’ll have to take those extra steps, at least for now. We’re working on version 2 of the sampler, and in the current release we’re stuck halfway to the goal.
Bill
Hi Taryn,
The airport locations come in when you open the NOAA Weather plugin. You have probably closed that, but the weather station data has remained.
You can delete the weather station day by clicking on the Tables icon which will bring up a list of datasets that are in your document. One of them should be weather stations. Next to it is a trash can icon. Click on that and confirm that you want to delete that dataset. The points should disappear from the map, but, if they don’t, try closing the map and making a new one.
Hope that helps,
Bill
Hello Taryn,
Thanks so much for sharing this! I just verified that I get the same error and I’ve alerted our developer team. Hopefully the fix will be simple.
Bill
Hello,
True enough, CODAP doesn’t allow you to change the color that fills a box plot. That’s not planned for the next version either. Do you have a need for this feature other than cosmetic?
Bill
Hi Jacob,
Yes, that works because by saying prev(Latitude, Latitude) you’re saying, if there’s no previous value of Latitude, use the current value. And the current value minus the current value is zero.
Nice job figuring this out!
Bill
I’m probably providing too much help in the enclosed screenshot of the Transformer. But hopefully it gets you over the hump.
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Hello Michael,
I’m not familiar with the workbook to which you refer. Can you provide a link?
Thanks,
Bill
Hi Timothy,
No, you can’t add two (or more) quantitative variables (attributes) to an axis to create parallel dot plots. Sorry.
As you probably have already discovered, if your two (or more) distributions belong to a single attribute and can be distinguished by a categorical attribute, then it’s easy to get the desired parallel dot plots. I’ve enclosed a screenshot of this.
Bill
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Hi Stephanie,
It sounds possible but tricky. How would you match up the sites? Perhaps you could make a shared view of the CODAP document so others could take a look?
Bill
Hello Michael,Thanks for sending the file.
The problem is with the hash mark (#) in the first row. CODAP interprets that as an indicator that there is metadata in that row and does not include it in the dataset proper. By changing the hash mark to a column name, like N the file imports as one would expect. To illustrate what I mean by metadata, here are the first 14 lines of the exported data from the Mammals sample document in which you can see the hash marks and metadata for each attribute.# attribute — name: Mammal, description: The species of the mammal, editable: true# attribute — name: Order, description: The order of the mammal, editable: true# attribute — name: LifeSpan, type: numeric, unit: years, editable: true# attribute — name: Height, description: The average height of the mammal., unit: meters, editable: true# attribute — name: Mass, description: The mass of the mammal, type: numeric, unit: kg, editable: true# attribute — name: Sleep, description: The number of hours the animal sleeps in a 24 hour period, type: numeric, unit: hours, editable: true# attribute — name: Speed, description: The average speed of the mammal., unit: km/h, editable: true# attribute — name: Habitat, editable: true# attribute — name: Diet, editable: trueMammal,Order,LifeSpan,Height,Mass,Sleep,Speed,Habitat,DietAfrican Elephant,Proboscidae,70,4,6400,3,40,land,plantsAsian Elephant,Proboscidae,70,3,5000,4,40,land,plantsBig Brown Bat,Chiroptera,19,0.1,0.02,20,40,land,meatThanks for reaching out with this question!
Bill
Hello Michael,It would help if you would provide the csv file. I suspect there is something unusual about it.Thanks,Bill
Hello,I’ve enclosed a screenshot of a binned dot plot in which the data are grouped by intervals and the Count option is enabled so you can see how many cases are in each interval.Does that help?
Bill
There is no way to change the default number of cases to be imported. It is hard coded as 5000. But, as you know, if the number of lines in a ‘csv’ file is greater than 5000, when the dialog box you can change the number of cases to import to anything you like, including 500.If I may ask, what is the reason you would like to change it?
