Comments on: Agile and Literate Data Entry- is YAML the Answer? http://dsanalytics.com/dsblog/agile-and-literate-data-entry-is-yaml-the-answer_137 Data Analytics- the art and science of analyzing data Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:24:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: John Aitchison http://dsanalytics.com/dsblog/agile-and-literate-data-entry-is-yaml-the-answer_137#comment-3000 Mon, 05 May 2008 03:33:53 +0000 http://dsanalytics.com/dsblog/agile-and-literate-data-entry-is-yaml-the-answer_137#comment-3000 If you aren't yet convinced about YAML, here is my favourite Delphi implementation of JSON <a href="http://www.progdigy.com/modules.php?name=jsontoolkit" title="progdigy.com - JSON Toolkit" rel="nofollow">progdigy.com - JSON Toolkit</a> More here, <a href="http://www.json.org/" title="JSON" rel="nofollow">JSON</a>, if you like other languages.. even one in R <a href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rjson/index.html" title="CRAN - Package rjson : Converts R object into JSON objects and vice-versa" rel="nofollow">CRAN - Package rjson : Converts R object into JSON objects and vice-versa</a> If you aren’t yet convinced about YAML, here is my favourite Delphi implementation of JSON progdigy.com - JSON Toolkit

More here,
JSON, if you like other languages.. even one in R
CRAN - Package rjson : Converts R object into JSON objects and vice-versa

]]> by: John Aitchison http://dsanalytics.com/dsblog/agile-and-literate-data-entry-is-yaml-the-answer_137#comment-1063 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:55:49 +0000 http://dsanalytics.com/dsblog/agile-and-literate-data-entry-is-yaml-the-answer_137#comment-1063 For a light hearted look at YAML and what it can do for you in the real world see http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/10/30/yaml-because-xml-is-for-wussies YAML, Because XML is for Wussies <blockquote> The real guys, so you learn—the ones that get all the chicks—use YAML. And YAML Ain’t Markup Language. Markup is like make-up. You don’t use make-up either, do you? </blockquote> If you are seriously interested in the relationship between analytics and documentation/reporting have a close look at the "Model Based Documentation" approach .. there is some YAML in there http://www.openresource.com/MBD/mbd_extraction.php but it is a much larger topic than just YAML.. it is about how we bring order and retrievability to document collections with a "modelling" approach, how we integrate wisdom, information and data. http://www.openresource.com/MBD/mbd_overview.php For a light hearted look at YAML and what it can do for you in the real world
see http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/10/30/yaml-because-xml-is-for-wussies

YAML, Because XML is for Wussies

The real guys, so you learn—the ones that get all the chicks—use YAML. And YAML Ain’t Markup Language. Markup is like make-up. You don’t use make-up either, do you?

If you are seriously interested in the relationship between analytics and documentation/reporting have a close look at the “Model Based Documentation” approach .. there is some YAML in there http://www.openresource.com/MBD/mbd_extraction.php
but it is a much larger topic than just YAML.. it is about how we bring order and retrievability to document collections with a “modelling” approach, how we integrate wisdom, information and data.

http://www.openresource.com/MBD/mbd_overview.php

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