There should be some way to handle numerical data in Movable Type. Say you run a research project, and have numerical data coming in every now and then. In MT you should be able to enter this data as it happens and have it analysed: rudimentary statistics, diagrams could be produced. Export in standard formats, of course.
Every datapoint/day’s entry should be a separate entry in MT. Permalink, comments, trackbacks of each entry would facilitate discussions about the data.
Lab notebook meets Excel meets graphing software meets blogging meets collaborative software.
There is an Entry Body area in MT; there could also be a Numerical Entry area.
It would be really useful in, for example, research groups where people often are’nt in the lab at the same time, in different departments or quite often on different continents.
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There really should be an easier way of expanding the dataset provided by MT. What if the standard set (Title, Main Entry Text etc) could be expanded with user customized fields? We could add fields to our hearts’ content and use these fields for sorting, metadata etc. Plug-ins could use these fields for more advanced purposes, such as the example you cite.
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