User-Defined Data Types

With convertible data types now generally available in HASH, we've finally also now rolled out the ability to create custom data types.

User-defined, custom data types unlock all kinds of exciting possibilities, not only strengthening data validation in HASH and making data more self-descriptive, but improving the utility of HASH workers as AI research assistants as well, helping ensure scraped data precisely meets your required form.

Rather than be bounded to those primitive data types which ship with HASH, which primarily cover common computing and SI units, you can now define your own data types which:

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  precisely describe the data you're working with, through constraints

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  where applicable, specify how these units of value can be mapped to others, through conversions

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  define how data of this type should be displayed in HASH, through unit labels (whether prefixed before like currency symbols such as €/£/$, or affixed afterwards like temperature measures such as ℃/℉)