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rjdqa vs wasserportal
A side-by-side editorial comparison of rjdqa and wasserportal — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:r-package
rjdqa vs wasserportal: at a glance
What is rjdqa?
rjdqa keeps refining one screen: the seasonal adjustment quality dashboard
rjdqa builds quality assessment dashboards for seasonal adjustment models produced by JDemetra+, aimed at official statisticians reviewing adjusted series. Essentially all development goes into two functions, simple_dashboard() and its denser variant simple_dashboard2(). Version 0.1.6 adds parameters to append observations to the forecast and to control whether the residual trading-days test is printed, defaulting to monthly series only, plus outlier table layout work and user-defined calendar regressor support in sc_dashboard().
What is wasserportal?
A Berlin groundwater scraper grew a full IoT publishing pipeline in two days.
wasserportal scrapes groundwater and surface water monitoring data from Wasserportal Berlin — station metadata, water levels, quality series. For its first four years that was the whole product, with releases tracking the portal's own churn: a new API version in 2023, new three-letter variable codes, and a 2026 fix decoding pages as windows-1252 because the server declares UTF-8 but emits Latin-1. In June 2026 it added a ThingsBoard integration, then extended it to self-hosted instances two days later.
rjdqa vs wasserportal: editorial side-by-side
rjdqa
0.0ANALYTICS
rjdqa keeps refining one screen: the seasonal adjustment quality dashboard
◆ Current state
rjdqa builds quality assessment dashboards for seasonal adjustment models produced by JDemetra+, aimed at official statisticians reviewing adjusted series. Essentially all development goes into two functions, simple_dashboard() and its denser variant simple_dashboard2(). Version 0.1.6 adds parameters to append observations to the forecast and to control whether the residual trading-days test is printed, defaulting to monthly series only, plus outlier table layout work and user-defined calendar regressor support in sc_dashboard().
◆ Where it's heading
The package has converged on a single deliverable and is tuning it against reviewer practice. Each release adds a parameter that lets the analyst include or exclude one element of the dashboard, or adjusts how densely information is packed into the fixed space of the layout. The td_effect default — print the test only for monthly series — is characteristic: the knowledge about when a diagnostic is meaningful is being encoded into the tool rather than left to the reader.
◆ Prediction
The pattern of adding one toggle per diagnostic per release points at the same thing again, most likely another test given a conditional default, rather than a new dashboard function alongside the two that exist.
wasserportal
0.0ANALYTICS
A Berlin groundwater scraper grew a full IoT publishing pipeline in two days.
◆ Current state
wasserportal scrapes groundwater and surface water monitoring data from Wasserportal Berlin — station metadata, water levels, quality series. For its first four years that was the whole product, with releases tracking the portal's own churn: a new API version in 2023, new three-letter variable codes, and a 2026 fix decoding pages as windows-1252 because the server declares UTF-8 but emits Latin-1. In June 2026 it added a ThingsBoard integration, then extended it to self-hosted instances two days later.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is repositioning from a data-access library into the first half of a monitoring pipeline. 0.6.0 shipped push helpers, device discovery and cleanup, an importable dashboard and a GitHub Actions workflow; 0.7.0 immediately generalised the authentication so it works against self-hosted Community Edition rather than only the Cloud tier, and lifted the push from a five-station demo to the entire groundwater archive. The hardening detail in 0.7.0 — retries on 5xx, warnings when only one of two credentials is set — reads like a maintainer who has run this against a real deployment.
◆ Prediction
The obvious next step is extending the ThingsBoard path to the surface water stations, which the package has flagged as under-supported since 0.1.0. The entries show no other direction under construction.
Alternatives to rjdqa and wasserportal
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Recent activity from rjdqa and wasserportal
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1mo agowasserportalSelf-hosted ThingsBoard support via JWT login
- 1mo agowasserportalThingsBoard integration turns the scraper into a pipeline ⚡
- 3mo agowasserportalwindows-1252 decoding fixes umlaut handling on Windows
- 9mo agorjdqaForecast observations and conditional trading-days test in dashboards
- 1y agorjdqaFix tail() usage on ts objects
- 2y agorjdqaFix dependency minimums and outlier ordering
- 2y agorjdqasimple_dashboard2() added; deprecated sa_dashboard() removed
- 2y agorjdqasimple_dashboard() introduced; sa_dashboard() deprecated
- 3y agowasserportalExport and import functions for scraped datasets
- 3y agowasserportalAdapted to Wasserportal's new API version
- 4y agowasserportalTemperature parameter naming corrected
- 7y agorjdqaFirst CRAN release
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between rjdqa and wasserportal?
Both compete on the same themes — r-package — within Analytics. rjdqa and wasserportal are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is rjdqa better than wasserportal?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. rjdqa and wasserportal are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to rjdqa?
Top rjdqa alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "rjdqa alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/rjdqa-r for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to wasserportal?
Top wasserportal alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "wasserportal alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/wasserportal for the full list with editorial commentary on each.