This is very good news. In case it is useful (and perhaps others will add
notes), I've put in some comments on related work:
Mariusz Adamski : 3D Plots
A physics senior from Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland
who will be working with Jean to add surfaces.
-- Duncan Murdoch (Maths and Stats, U. of Western Ontario) has done quite a
lot of
work on the R package RGL. It does rotating 3D graphs. He's approachable and
helpful. I've just done a little item on printing very large graphs with him
that I put up on the r-project.org wiki. R and Gnumeric have a long and
friendly history.
Daniel Hall : Audit Trails
A CPA studying CS at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
He will be working with Morten to extend the undo/redo code
to provide persistence.
-- Daniel already has been in touch with me, since the telltable.com /
telltable-s.sf.net projects were a motivation to this (but I'm hoping Gnumeric
will make them redundant!) Capturing history is not too difficult, capturing so
it can be used easily and cleanly is, I think, likely to be quite hard. There
are some commercial packages out there (System 7 and Wimmer Systems come to
mind) that seem to be able to ask for very big bucks from the pharmaceutical
industry for clinical trial data handling and from financial institutions for
handling their investment analysis models etc.
David Torne Berga : Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization
Will be working with me on 'data slicers' (aka pivots and pilots)
-- There's a hard core of Excel users who claim this is the reason they can
never use anything else. I believe in one close-to-home case it is the
justification for spending on 100s of copies of Excel, though possibly only one
user ever uses them -- the person controlling the purchase!
Best wishes to those working on these projects.
JN
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