crosstab

crosstab by Michael Judge [e-mail] http://crosstab.rubyforge.org/

== DESCRIPTION:

Crosstab is a library for generating formatted pivot tables.

== FEATURES:

• Input your data as an array of hashes
• Input a report layout, built using a Ruby DSL
• Outputs ASCII pivot tables suitable for fast reports
• Pretty fast: takes less than a second to process 1,000 records of data by a report with 100 rows and 10 columns.

== SYNOPSIS:

require 'rubygems' require 'crosstab'

data = [{:gender => "M", :age => 1}, {:gender => "F", :age => 2}, {:gender => "M", :age => 3}]

my_crosstab = crosstab data do table do title "Q.A Age:"
group "18 - 54" do row "18 - 34", :age => 1 row "35 - 54", :age => 2
end
row "55 or older", :age => 3
end

banner do
  column "Total"
  group "Gender" do
    column "Male", :gender => "M"
    column "Female", :gender => "F"
  end
end    

end

puts my_crosstab.to_s

=> ...

Table 1 Q.A Age: Gender
----------------
Total Male Female
(A) (B) (C)
------- ------- -------
(BASE) 3 2 1

18 - 54 2 1 1
----------------------------- 67% 50% 100%

18 - 34                            1        1       --  
                                 33%      50%           

35 - 54                            1       --        1  
                                 33%              100%  

55 or older 1 1 --
33% 50%

== JUST THE BEGINNING:

• I hope to add in later releases:
• New export formats: html, pdf, csv, excel.
• More stats than just frequency and percentage: mean, median, std. deviation, std. error, and significance testing
• Optional row and table suppression for low frequencies
• Optional table rows populating from the data
• Optional table ranking -- automatically reorder rows based in descending order based on frequencies observed

== REQUIREMENTS:

• None

== INSTALL:

• sudo gem install crosstab

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2007 Michael Judge

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