Pinakas

"Pinakas" means "board" in Greek. A web monitoring tool, dashboard and system to visualize an area (city, region, country etc) status by displaying several indicators.

Structure

Menu

• Home
• Account
• About
• Contact
• Legal terms
• Data
• API

Categories (of Data - Cards)

• Weather
• Transportation
• Traffic & roads
• Business
• Hospitals
• Pharmacy
• Events
• News
• Alerts (emergency)
• Police alerts & security
• Sports
• NOW (what is happening now in the area)
• Live streaming
• Entertainment
• Housing (stats)
• Education stats
• Gov services contact and info
• Population
• Electricity
• Financial stats
• Interner services status
• Phone services status
• Water supply
• Banks and financial institutions
• Financial indicators
• Social media
• Queues on public sector services (e.g. in hospitals)
• Trends (in social or news)

Features & Technical

• HTML emded
• Sharing widgets
• Dashboard generator
• Data snapshots (static exports)
• API (JSONAPI, GraphQL)
• NoSQL database
• Oauth login
• Social account login
• User accounts
• JSON described (fields, relationships, uuid etc)
• Search with filters
• Live edit Cards (inline)
• Print
• RDF, schemaorg triages
• OpenStreetMaps (mapping)
• Icon fonts (svg)
• Live streaming (camera stream)
• Frontend with JS
• Backend (Drupal)

Structure & entities

• User
• Card (data display widget)
• Feed (import resource)
  • CSV
  • RSS
  • User input
  • JSON API
  • log files
  • HTML parser
• Report (multiple Cards with texts etc)
• API consumer
• Dashboard (of Cards)
• Page (normal HTML)
• Export

Card widgets

• Text
• Table display
• Numerical data
  • Plain numbers
  • Percent
  • Diffs
  • Diagrams
  • On/Off
  • Live number change
• Location
  • maps
  • pins
  • routes
• iframe

Card options

• Permissions
• Live edit (click to edit)
• Highlight effect (on new values)
• Dynamic color change by value
• Drag and drop on Dashboard
• Show/Hide
• Change display
• Grow (grid and columns)
• Change details of display (minimal, short, normal, extended, detailed)
• Export to JSON
• Print to image
• Snapshot
• Clone/copy
• Lock (no changes allowed etc)

Example

JSON of a Card

{
"type": "list_integer",
"status": 1,
"frequency": [
  1,
  15,
  30
],
"owner": 123,
"uuid": "56771d54-10d8-4516-90c2-1efe796550f7",
"created": 11232433214,
"changed": 11232433214,
"area": "Thessaloniki, Greece",
"taxonomy": [
  "gov",
  "thessaloniki"
],
"data": {
  "εφορία": 23,
  "κεπ": 3,
  "λεωφορεία": 2
}
}

Indicators examples

• Date and time
• Weather (by time, alerts)
• Locations with safety issues
• Business new vs closed
• Transportation status and info (bus, taxi, train, airplanes, bicycles)
• Technical works on roads
• Road incidents
• Calls to the Police/Fire service
• Live events now
• Status of the water (quality of water, limits)
• Population (births, deaths)