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DrupalCamp @ Stanford

Using Drupal for Research Applications

How Drupal is Bringing Value to Academia Research

Drupal is becoming a powerful research tool that relieves faculty and researchers from working on creating and managing databases and user interface tools and allows them to focus on actual research topics. We will demo how tools built with Drupal support research, scholarship, data management and more.

Join other researchers, lab managers, and technicians to find out how Drupal provided an easy and inexpensive solution for three research projects.

Drupal was used to

• create data structures intuitively without coding SQL
• import or enter data & metadata via a single web interface
• display data in various formats & visualizations
• distribute data for others to use

For more information: https://drupalcamp.stanford.edu/academicsummit

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Social Data Research Rally

http://sdrr.stanford.edu/#sessions

Slides presented by Joy and Laissa

Tableau
A fast analytics tool, allowing non-IT business users to perform data discovery, develop insights, and create interactive visualizations for management decision making and performance monitoring.

  • Drag and drop reporting
  • Interactive dashboards with drill down capabilities
  • Quick table calculations
  • Geospatial intelligence

Tip: Avoid using Tableau to replicate tabular Excel reports.

Good to use Tableau to get a sense of data
Easy to use for non-programmers, “Show Me” feature recommends visualizations/views of data

Tableau Examples and Resources

Use Tableau Desktop App to create workbooks (to share would need to publish on a server)
 Kimberly Shay Morton – Tableau Account Manager for Stanford (kimorton@tableau.com)

Stanford has a site license for Tableau server
Kumar Priyadarshi, Stanford Administrative Systems, Tableau Server Administrator (kumarp05@stanford.edu)
 Info needed to set up Stanford Tableau Server account

Stanford Tableau User Group – subscribe to mailing list

Tableau Public Server

D3
D3 (or D3.js) is a JavaScript library for visualizing data using web standards

  • Open Source
  • Web standards – HTML SVG CSS
  • Powerful visualization components
  • Highly customizable
  • Fast, support large datasets, dynamic behaviors for interaction and animation
  • Lots of online resources and examples

D3 Examples & Demo

  • Irina Zaks – showed Stanford Securities Litigation Analytics D3 and Drupal site
  • Developed in response to Law School faculty requests for a platform for data research
  • Drupal – CMS – made it easy for faculty to submit info (upload .csv), share and collaborate
  • D3 – support for customized visualizations