Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online?

Posted by Zaheer on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @10:33PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have a large csv file (data table) I would like to share online in a nice sortable/filterable/searchable table. Are there any tools that do this - preferably would like a solution with less technical experience as I know friends that have a similar goal.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by peatmoss on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @11:10PM (#6480395)

Google fusion tables is somewhat useful. I think you can give them money if your data is too big for the free limit, but I could be wrong.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by Zaheer on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:46AM (#6481051)

This worked great! Didn't know this existed!

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by rogueleaderr on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @10:45PM (#6480307)

Look into DataTables javascript library to make the data presentable once you find a way to serve it.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by Zaheer on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @11:08PM (#6480386)

I've seen DataTables which I may be able to set up but for non-technical data to be able to share data its simply unmanageable.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by dangrossman on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:06AM (#6480555)

Just give people the CSV file. Excel/OpenOffice will sort/filter/search it. Your friends are more likely to have used Excel than some web app or JS library.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by danso on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @11:05PM (#6480364)

How large is "large"? Thousands of rows? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by Zaheer on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @11:07PM (#6480382)

Tens of thousands of rows for me. Though may be higher for some of my buddies.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by wulfgarpro on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:42AM (#6481044)

Google Docs Spreadsheet

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by Zaheer on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:46AM (#6481052)

I reached their 400k cell limit :( Although Google Fusion works great as someone else pointed out below!

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to share large data table online? by wulfgarpro on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @08:07PM (#6486306)

Didn't know there was a limit - interesting :)

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