What are applications?
When we say we want to save our information, view it, compare it to others and analyze it – applications allow us to analyze. While View, Category, Group and other concepts are mostly definitions and are static passive by nature, an application is active. It takes information and outputs new information that didn’t exist before. Maybe the simplest applications would be something that changes how we measure data – maybe change fahrenheit to celsius. A slightly more frequent and very popular one is creating ratios – given two markers (Sodium and Potassium for example) – create and view the ratio between them. From here – the sky’s the limit.
How can they do that?
An application has configuration. It can define the input (what markers to look at), the frequency of running (hourly, daily, monthly, once a new marker appears) and then it runs the “formula” on that data. All you need to do in order to write a formula is use our editor – no code is needed!