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We are thinking of an extension to pingtable.pl to make the menu much more powerful, e.g. provide the standard ticks(like we do today) plus the ability to select times and dates, allow selection of multiple metrics, allow selection of multiple from and to, plus allow selection of multiple visualization (time series, bar charts, maps etc.) One place to look for graphs that we need today but require exporting to Excel etc to create would be the yearly PingER status reports (e.g http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/icfa/icfa-net-paper-jan15/report-jan15.docx). Other visualizations would be to make comparisons versus economic (HDI, IDI, corruption ...) or development indices (e.g. correlation plots a la http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/pinger-metrics-motion-chart.html) or even versus other data available via the semantic web
Some examples of required graphics
Accessing data
Hourly data is accessible via FTP at ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/cottrell/ as tar files by metric. This is updated daily. See Archiving PingER data by tar for retrieval by anonymous ftp for how to access the complete set. Also can just few (up to 60) days in case you missed some days (see Public FTP daily update). Could use this to populate one's own warehouse.
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