The Napkin (or small notepad) Sketch
It’s seems like with many problems we face there are 1,000,000 solutions that could work. Some are better than others and some are more attainable than others. When Ryan and I first talked about ways to configure, collect, program and portray the data collected for Data Streams we had many ideas. Proprietary Software Packages, finagled open-sourced software codes, custom built processing packages coded by Seattle freelance code engineers – just to name a few. But the more I thought about it, the more I figured there HAD to be an easier solution. Something simple that is widely used, but maybe not always for this intended purpose. And it came one night while checking my email – gmail to be exact. I had a pop up from Google advertising Drive for you Desktop. A simple plugin that allows you to interact and manipulate files from the desktop of any computer and link them LIVE to a single Drive account in the Cloud. This allows us to feed sensor data from a desktop in Seattle, a workstation in Lincoln, or a conference room in Shangai all back to a DLR Group based Google Drive account linked to a data visualization software like Tableau or Domo with a few easy modifications!
So, that’s it! Simple as pie right? We hope so to…