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Kanit Wongsuphasawat edited this page Apr 23, 2015 · 17 revisions

Interested in helping to improve PoleStar? Here are some ways to contribute.

  • Find a bug? Report it as an issue on GitHub. Please search for it first to avoid duplication. If your bug is a new issue, please include sufficient details that others can reproduce the bug.

  • Fix bugs and add new features to PoleStar.
    There are a number of issues that we have labeled as help-wanted issues that could benefit from your help!

  • If you have time for a small, self-contained project or need an idea for a class project at school, we also list a number of self-contained project ideas below.

  • If you have any questions, please feel free to post a question in our discussion group.

Common Interface for PoleStar and Voyager and other Vega/Vegalite applications.

  • implement raw data viewer

  • implement better univariate summary, possibly with histograms (#144)

  • dataset loader (#241)

  • persistent storage for sharing uploaded data

  • extend schema viewer e.g., allow organizing fields into group, manual ordering (#261)

  • UI & Back-end for Data Transformation

    • Filter
      • Quick Filter/Dynamic Query UI (#2)
      • Add more complex filter UI
    • Sorting (#113)
    • More Complex UI for Data Transformation (depending on vegalite’s
    • In-memory Data Management Layer
    • Data Management Server
  • Provenance & History

    • extend bookmark views (#263)
    • allow annotating visualizations (#199)
    • add history view
  • export to lyra feature (#7)

Automatic Presentation

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Relevant Projects.

Also feel free to take a look at contribute pages of relevant projects.

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