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PyTables

Wednesday, July 28th, 20103 Commented
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I have not finished the work on integrating PyTables into Picalo.  We moved this summer and have been homeless for a few months while we build a home.  It’s been a difficult summer to work on my OSS projects.  I am still excited about the prospects of what PyTables can bring to Picalo, so please [...]

Goal seeking for a total value

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010No Commented
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I’ve now been asked by two different people if Picalo can add (or subtract) a group of numbers together to see if any combinations equal a goal value.  This is useful when a person comes up with a missing value during an audit.  For example, if $7.07 is left after verifying some numbers, it must [...]

Version 4.39

Friday, January 22nd, 20102 Commented
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I posted version 4.39 today.  It’s got a lot of important changes in it.  Most importantly, I’m finally happy with the way field formatting is done.  Date and number formats are a mess inherently — so many formats, so many ways to represent things.  They affect how Picalo imports data from CSV and other formats, [...]

The Workbook is Here!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009one Commented
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After many hours and sore wrists, I’ve finished the Picalo Workbook.  It’s a hands-on introduction to Picalo.  It’s got exercises, tasks, and sample datasets.  I’m hoping it will be a great introduction to Picalo for new users.
The workbook is the result of some training I did for the a client two weeks ago.  It wanted [...]