From the webpage:
PourOver is a library for simple, fast filtering and sorting of large collections – think 100,000s of items – in the browser. It allows you to build data-exploration apps and archives that run at 60fps, that don’t have to to wait for a database call to render query results.
PourOver is built around the ideal of simple queries that can be arbitrarily composed with each other, without having to recalculate their results. You can union, intersect, and difference queries. PourOver will remember how your queries were constructed and can smartly update them when items are added or modified. You also get useful features like collections that buffer their information periodically, views that page and cache, fast sorting, and much, much more.
If you just want to get started using PourOver, I would skip to “Preface – The Best Way to Learn PourOver”. There you will find extensive examples. If you are curious about why we made PourOver or what it might offer to you, I encourage you to skip down to “Chp 1. – The Philosophy of PourOver”.
This looks very cool!
Imagine doing client side merging of content from multiple topic map servers.
This type of software development and open release is making me consider a subscription to the New York Times.
You?
I first saw this at Nathan Yau’s PourOver Allows Filtering of Large Datasets In Your Browser. If you are interested in data visualization and aren’t following Nathan’s blog, you should be.