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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. # 8th February 2019, 6:08 am

Exploring search relevance algorithms with SQLite

SQLite isn’t just a fast, high quality embedded database: it also incorporates a powerful full-text search engine in the form of the FTS4 and FTS5 extensions. You’ve probably used these a bunch of times already: many iOS, Android and desktop applications use SQLite under-the-hood and use it to implement their built-in search.

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3:29 am / 7th January 2019 / fulltextsearch, projects, search, sqlite, datasette

The interesting ideas in Datasette

Datasette (previously) is my open source tool for exploring and publishing structured data. There are a lot of ideas embedded in Datasette. I realized that I haven’t put many of them into writing.

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2:28 am / 4th October 2018 / projects, sqlite, datasette, bakeddata

Exploring the UK Register of Members Interests with SQL and Datasette

Ever wondered which UK Members of Parliament get gifted the most helicopter rides? How about which MPs have been given Christmas hampers by the Sultan of Brunei? (David Cameron, William Hague and Michael Howard apparently). Here’s how to dig through the Register of Members Interests using SQL and Datasette.

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3:49 pm / 25th April 2018 / mysociety, politicalhacking, politics, projects, sqlite, xml, datasette

csvs-to-sqlite 0.8. I released a new version of my csvs-to-sqlite tool this morning with a bunch of handy new features. It can now rename columns and define their types, add the CSV filenames as an additional column, add create indexes on columns and parse dates and datetimes into SQLite-friendly ISO formatted values. # 24th April 2018, 4:11 pm

Analyzing my Twitter followers with Datasette

I decided to do some ad-hoc analsis of my social network on Twitter this afternoon… and since everything is more fun if you bundle it up into a SQLite database and publish it to the internet I performed the analysis using Datasette.

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6:41 am / 28th January 2018 / pandas, projects, sqlite, twitter, datasette