Mathr Examples and Use Case Testing

NOTE: This is mostly a spec at this point. I have jison wired up to parse some sample text, but that's it so far.

The idea is to have a reactive notes app that can do math for you using data tables and maybe some python-like functions.

• .txt or .md format
• workflow like Quip?
• should feel like soulver but with table data + functions
• more functional like Calca
• live data tables, importable from .csv, Google Docs, .xls
• custom syntax
• custom JS parser or just use python?
• kind of like iPython 2.0?
  • http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/2.x/examples/Interactive%20Widgets/Using%20Interact.ipynb
  • http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/minad/iruby/blob/master/IRuby-Example.ipynb
• mongodb or redis?
• markdown?
• enable "-" todos like Taskpaper?
• sync with Dropbox
• collaboration tools (wiki or OT/sync.js style?) like Google Docs

Example from Soulver

month: 31 d × 24 hrs
term: 36 mo heavy utilization
AWS Reserved Pricing: (CPUs, ECU, Mem GiB, Storage GB)
SPOT m1.xlarge (4/8/15/4x420): monthly cost is 744 × $0.0521 per month
m1.large (2/4/7.5/2x420): monthly cost is 744 × $0.034 per hr + ($750 upfront / 744) per mth
SPOT m1.large (2/4/7.5/2x420): monthly cost is 744 × $0.0261 per month
m1.medium (1/2/3.75/410): monthly cost is 744 × $0.017 per hr + ($375 upfront / 744) per mth

Embedded Databases/Spreadsheets

• importable
• can get live/realtime data from json, websockets or google docs
• "*" signifies the "slug" field

    ┌---------------------------------------------------------------------------------┐
    |                                 t1 ECU Sizes                                    |
    ├-------------------------------------------------------------------------------┬-┤
    | | A         | B   | C   | D       | E           | F          | G       | H    | |
    | | *Size     | CPU | ECU | Mem GiB | Storage GiB | V Price Hr | Upfront | Type |+|
    |1| m1.xlarge |   4 |   8 |      15 |       4x420 |    $0.0521 |      $0 | SPOT | |
    |2| m1.large  |   2 |   4 |     7.5 |       2x420 |     $0.034 |    $750 | reg  | |
    |3| m1.large  |   2 |   4 |     7.5 |       2x420 |    $0.0261 |      $0 | SPOT | |
    |4| m1.medium |   1 |   2 |    3.75 |         410 |     $0.017 |    $375 | reg  | |
    |+|           |     |     |         |             |            |         |      | |
    └-------------------------------------------------------------------------------┴-┘

Embedded Functions

• python?
• works on data values, numbers, strings
• would need to consider functional vs. OO
• functional might work better on this kind of data

Example function:

┌-------------------------------┐
|        f1 multiply_list       |
├-------------------------------┤
|1|def multiply_list(v, m):     |
|2|  for i in v:                |
|3|    i = i * m                |
|4|  return v                   |
|5|                             |
└-------------------------------┘

Spreadsheet Query Language

• copied from python + Google Docs
• needs more investigation

Some syntax ideas:

t1.A1:B1
multiply(t1.F1:F3, 13)
t1.Size.1
t1.1.Size
t1['m1.xlarge']['Size']
['ECU Sizes']['m1.xlarge']['Size']
ECU Sizes m1.xlarge Size
ECU Sizes|m1.xlarge|Size
ECU Sizes!m1.xlarge!Size
Google docs style: "='Sheet number two'!B4"

Can apply filters:

t1.F X month | < $20

Live output from queries on every line

This is from t1.F X month | < $20:

┌-----------------------------------┐
| t1 ECU Sizes | t1.F X month < $20 |
|-----------------------------------|
| | F                               |
| |                        Price Hr |
|3|                        $19.4184 |
|4|                          $13.15 |
└-----------------------------------┘

Live output can also result in single values

Output should look more like soulver with the results to the right of every line:

t1.F.1 X month # $38.7624

Installation & Runtime

> npm install && bower install
> grunt serve

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