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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]