{"id":325,"date":"2008-06-19T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=325"},"modified":"2008-06-19T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T23:41:00","slug":"325","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago on Platform Wars I <a href=\"http:\/\/platformwars.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/paul-graham-thinks-microsoft-is-dead.html\">wrote<\/a> : <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>99% of the world&#8217;s &#8220;semi-structured&#8221; data is not in Microformats but in tables in spreadsheets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wildly inaccurate estimate I&#8217;m sure. But I&#8217;ll bet it dwarfs XML formats including RSS. So where&#8217;s the Yahoo Pipes for CSV and spreadsheet data? The mashing, pivot-tabling, cartesian joining of live grids?<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Pipes does have a <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/docs?doc=sources#FetchCSV\">CSV reader<\/a> &#8230; but I&#8217;d like to see more. Particularly pivoting and SQL-like selects, projects and joins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago on Platform Wars I wrote : 99% of the world&#8217;s &#8220;semi-structured&#8221; data is not in Microformats but in tables in spreadsheets. Wildly inaccurate estimate I&#8217;m sure. But I&#8217;ll bet it dwarfs XML formats including RSS. So where&#8217;s the Yahoo Pipes for CSV and spreadsheet data? The mashing, pivot-tabling, cartesian joining of live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,138,146,394,433],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dataflow","tag-excel","tag-feeds","tag-rss","tag-spreadsheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}