Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Rim weighting web tool

Another rim weighting tool. This time I've stuck it on my site and programmed it in JavaScript.

It uses the same conventions as the Excel tool and you will need:

  1. A tab delimited file holding the demographics. It will need to have a header labelling each of the columns of data.
  2. A tab delimited file holding the targets. This will need to have a header and 3 columns with the rim name, the cell name and the target. The rim name will need to correspond to one of the headers in the demographic file.
Drag these files to the relevant boxes on the page, set the parameters and then click on the rim weight button.

The weights will then be placed in the weights tab below the button.

The tool is still in a beta stage so improvements will be made but it does work. I do need to test the speed of it though.

As it's JavaScript it all happens in the browser. This means that nothing has to be loaded to a server but it does also mean that nothing is saved.



Comments always welcome.