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Friday, 8th February 2019

db-to-sqlite (via) I just released version 0.2 of a tiny CLI utility I’ve been working on. It builds on top of SQLAlchemy and lets you connect to any SQLAlchemy-supported database and convert the data from it to a local SQLite database file. The new --all option will mirror all available tables (including foreign key relationships), or you can use --sql to save the results of custom SQL queries.

# 6:08 am / projects, sqlite

socrata2sql (via) Phenomenal new open source tool released by Andrew Chavez at the Dallas Morning News. Socrata is the open data portal software used by huge numbers of local governments worldwide. socrata2sql is a tool that interacts with the standard Socrata API and can use it to suck down a dataset and save it as a SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL or other SQLAlchemy-supported database. I just tried this and it took a single command to create a SQLite database of every police arrest in Dallas in the past five years.

# 3:27 pm / data-journalism, sqlite, datasette

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