Hello Memory, World (of the)!
You of all people might appreciate this.
I missed the discussion around a paper someone sent to the lab, but something in the “Schema-Independent Database UI” struck me as powerful, with regards to a unified and coherent mental model for relational data. (I was recently pointed me towards Ted Nelson’s ZigZag, which could probably be considered as a counterpoint.)
Failing to find more than a glitchy video online showing Related Worksheets in action, I implemented a very rudimentary version of my own, testing it on a ~60K-row relational database scraped from a German media center/archive as part of a series of artworks for their website. My prototype is also exploring the embedding of an interactive representation of video timelines into the spreadsheet, as you can see in a screencast I made; if the video is too distracting (re: how the spreadsheet works), can see “just the data” here.
I’m hungry for feedback, though apprehensive about sending out the link, as it still feels somehow incomplete.
R.M.O.