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kentyler edited this page May 22, 2016 · 10 revisions

This project started out as an attempt to add gender/sexual preferece data to Salesforce.... I was greatly inspired by information i found at GenderBreadPerson

As I worked the original idea developed into a way to look at ALL data and not just data about sexuality and gender. I call this approach--- "TransData"

See all TransData packages..

If you think of data as the answer to a question...

Then five steps of transdata.

  1. We do away with the principle of the excluded middle. You can have multiple answers to the same question. You can have "contradictory" answers to the same question. Example. How do you feel about our company's chances next year ? I'm really optimistic. On the other hand, I'm really pessimistic.

  2. Any single answer can be weighted between 1 and 10. optimistic = 8, pessimistic = 5 (note that the weights don't have to add up to 10 for all the answers to a question).

  3. All answers have "effective dates". They also have an "active" checkbox. If an answer no longer applies, rather than deleting it, the answer is "de-activated". The fact that the answer applied at some time in the past is as important a piece of data as the answer(s) that apply now.

  4. Since the answers to a given question can be complex, there should be a way to record the "default" answer. If you think of the multiple answers as child records, then the parent record should have a field where the "default" answer can be recorded. This is because sometimes the database as a whole will be asked questions where the response must be in simple, rather than complex terms. Example. Who do you love?

  5. Since any given answer is only true for the time it is given, it is given that if the same question were answered at a later time, the answer might well be different. Thus every answer also has a "momentum" between 5 and -5 (which includes 0) that tells us what direction the answer is thought to be moving in. Example. I'm a democrat 7 and a republican 3. The momentum for democrat is 4 and the momentum for republican is -3. So i think in the future i will be more of a democrat and less of a republican.

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