Interactive SDK

• New, better factored code base using ASP.NET MVC.
• Provider model for data access, enabling clean retargeting to alternative data storage systems, e.g. SQL Azure, SQL Server, etc.
• Ability to quickly and easily change the logo, most of the copy, and footer links through configuration.
• Announcements and news feed on the landing page.
• Chart and bar views over data.
• Integration with browser history and deep bookmarking.
• Data set ratings and view counts
• End user comments, feedback, requests.
• Recently published, top rated, and most viewed data sets featured on the data catalog page.
• Extensive data set filtering on the data catalog page.
• Interactive query builder.

Data loading

• Better throughput (our informal testing shows close to order of magnitude improvement on a two core machine).
• Ability to add data to an existing data set.
• Ability to update entities in an existing data set.
• “Log exception and continue” error handling.
• New data loader Windows application enabling interactive metadata entry and data set loading.