One of the most requested features we’ve had over the past year or so is a table view of data, one that would allow you to filter and sort by any property of a type. We’ve been hard at work on it and are excited to announce that it should be generally available in the next release or so (within a month). For those that can’t wait, you can take a sneak peek. *please note that this code is still pretty rough, lots of bugs exist!*

Here are a couple of example pages: company & film actor – however the trick to viewing any of the type pages with this new view is simply to insert ‘type/’ after ‘freebase.com/’ and before ‘view/’ in the URL.

Features you can try out now

• Tabular view of data – data is organized in a clearer, more structured way
• Sortable column headings – items can be sorted up or down by any column heading
• Add/remove columns – add or remove any property or a type (or related types) as a column to display
• Filter on any column – filter on any column, either with strict auto-complete or partial string matches

Features that aren’t ready yet

• Back button support – retain the filter on navigation back to the filter page
• Prev/Next buttons (pagination) – navigation across multiple pages of results
• Advanced find – ability to enter filter criteria without adding columns, also modifiers (<,>, …)
• Add topics- ability to add instances of the type, via either auto-complete or list import
• Use or export this view – ability to export data to various formats, save new types and view the MQL behind the filter
• View properties – the new schema editor can also be previewed here too, but this isn’t at all functional at this point
• Save the view – ability to generate a permalink or save a view to Freebase
• Other visualizations – view the results in a map, chart or timeline

We welcome comments, questions, suggestions about this new feature. You can post to our discussions or send feedback.