<div dir="ltr">Perhaps of interest, especially the first link to 

Applied Category Theory<br>conference.  You will recognize some of the participants. <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>============================================<br>Tom Johnson - <a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a><br>Institute for Analytic Journalism   --     Santa Fe, NM USA<br>505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)<br><a href="http://nmfog.org" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0b5394">NM Foundation for Open Government</font></b></a><br><b><font color="#0000ff">Check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671" target="_blank">It's The People's Data</a></font></b>                 </div><div>============================================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Antonin Delpeuch (lists)</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu">lists@antonin.delpeuch.eu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:51 AM<br>Subject: [OpenRefine] Graphical visualizations of OpenRefine workflows<br>To: OpenRefine <<a href="mailto:openrefine@googlegroups.com">openrefine@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br>Hi all,<br>
<br>
One of the key features of OpenRefine is its ability to extract<br>
sequences of operations from a project and replay them on another. But<br>
this functionality is far from perfect: working with the JSON<br>
representation of operations can be cumbersome. It is hard to tell what<br>
a workflow does. Tweaking a workflow can break it easily, and it is not<br>
that easy to share it with others.<br>
<br>
One project I have been working on is trying to devise a graphical<br>
representation of OpenRefine workflows, so that users could inspect them<br>
and manipulate them graphically.<br>
<br>
I am presenting this project on Friday at the Applied Category Theory<br>
conference:<br>
<a href="http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ACT2019/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ACT2019/</a><br>
Category theory is a mathematical theory which can be used among others<br>
to design graphical representations for mathematical objects.<br>
<br>
The (academic) paper can be read here:<br>
<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05937.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05937.pdf</a><br>
It is primarily written for computer scientists and mathematicians, not<br>
the OpenRefine community. I am hoping to write something more<br>
explanatory for the OR community, giving examples of representations of<br>
workflows, and discussing the possible implementations of these ideas.<br>
<br>
Any feedback would be very welcome!<br>
<br>
Antonin<br>
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