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I am looking for a web based and open source data exploration tool. Some of the key features I am looking for include:

  • faceted search capabilities
  • ability to hopefully connect to more than one data source such as mysql, csv files, postgres,...
  • ability for one to select the columns to be presented
  • ability for one to be able to save a view based on filtered data results
  • hopefully with the ability to create a data view which combines the data from one or more datasets and merges them using a unique column sared by the datasets
  • hopefully with the ability to take the results from a merged/filtered search and create a new dataset from them

I know there are a few tools out there in the GIS space which do this fairly well but I have yet to find a greate tool focused on mangling datasets and creating views from them (examples like giscloud.com)

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Is this question specific to GIS application? – chl♦ Oct 26 '12 at 8:02
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"mangeling" = "mangling"? :-) – whuber♦ Oct 26 '12 at 11:38
no - the question relates to large multi-GB databases in general – NetConstructor.com Oct 26 '12 at 13:29
Are you talking about something where you upload your own data, or where data is already available? Most SQL servers only allow connections from localhost, forsecurity reasons, which would make this a pretty useless tool. If you're looking for one with datasets available to play with, check out GapMinder.org. – naught101 Nov 22 '12 at 4:36
I am referring to open source codes/applications which are web based that allow you to deal with your own data on your own server. Think something like datatables on steroids... – NetConstructor.com Nov 24 '12 at 0:00

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