Joao, Bebo, Les (SLAC), Maria, Marcos, Antonio, Renan, Claudio (Brazil)
Contacts see Contacts for Brazil.
Introduction to PingER if necessary, n.b. Maria, Les, Joao, Bebo, Antonio are already familiar with PingER
There appears to be considerable interest in the Brazilians to develop new ways to visualize the PingER data. This would continue after Joao leaves at the end of August. This would use a warehouse to access the data via a Hadoop cluster etc. Initially this would use the warehouse that Joao has installed at SLAC. It could also be a warehouse elsewhere since Joao now keeps the FTP hourly data up to date daily and it is possible to just get the new data (see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Public+FTP+daily+update)
We are thinking of a brain-storming session with the Brazilians, (cc'd) Bebo, Joao and myself. This should be soon, i.e. before Joao leaves. We were thinking of this coming Thursday, would you be available, even better if could be at SLAC. Since they are 4 hours ahead it could be daytime.
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
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 PingER Public FTP Archive daily update). Could use this to populate one's own warehouse.
Program that supported Renan, Thiago and Joao has finished.
Complete SLAC warehouse
Provide web access to select data using a URL or menu to choose:
What resources are Brazil thinking of engaging?
What are interests and for whom:
Thursday 8/19/2016 4:00pm SLAC, 8:00pm Rio.
Atendees: Les (SLAC), Bebo (SLAC), João (SLAC), Guto (Rio), Renan (Rio), Maria Luiza (Rio)
Some slides about the meeting: PingER Vis.pdf
Also look at meeting Brazil in early September after Joao returns.