New user needs help with small project
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Hi all, thank you for checking out this post. I am a new user to Freebase and I need some assistence.
I am tasked with a project of obtaining information for dog breeds. Typing into the search box for dog breeds I get a nice relational tabled representation of the data with the name and breed group. Clicking on one of the dog names itself gives me a little further information such as it's height and temperment.
Although if I search for Hypoallergenic Dogs, that base exposes other information immediately, such as their height.
What it comes down to is I need a way to pull this set of criteria (although it seems that Freebase does not have some of this data yet):
dog name, most popular by city, size, excercise needs, temperment, coat length, group, life span, energy level, hypo allergenic, family friendly and apartment friendly.
I've also noticed from runing some of the example queries from the help area, that data comes out as a hierarchical model rather than a relational model used by SQL or Excel. Is there a way to convert this into a kind of tabled form such as if you were to use the search bar on the top right?
Thank you in advance.
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Create the table that you want with the right filters and right columns displayed, then click on the little gear icon on the top and select "Download as a file."
Don't forget that the Terms of Service require attribution back to Metaweb/Freebase.
Not sure what you mean about the heirarchical vs relational, but the database isn't either really. If you're talking about the information displayed on a topic page in Label: Value form, you can get all that to come out in table views as well with the appropriate amount fiddling about the the table settings (click Edit View and add additional types/columns).
For data that's missing, feel free to add it if you've got a good source that's license compatible.
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