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

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by Zaheer • 13 years ago

5 10 13 years ago

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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.

rogueleaderr• 13 years ago

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

Zaheer4• 13 years ago

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.

danso• 13 years ago

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

Zaheer4• 13 years ago

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

peatmoss• 13 years ago

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.

Zaheer4• 13 years ago

This worked great! Didn't know this existed!

dangrossman• 13 years ago

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.

wulfgarpro2• 13 years ago

Google Docs Spreadsheet

Zaheer4• 13 years ago

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

wulfgarpro2• 13 years ago

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

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

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