Simon Willison’s Weblog

Plotly Falcon SQL Client and the Remarkable Datasette SQLite2API Generator. Lovely write-up of Datasette by Tony Hirst. I’m particularly excited about its applications in the world of data journalism so it’s great to see it starting to get attention from people in that sphere.

# 16th November 2017, 3:04 am / tony-hirst, datasette

Datasettes · simonw/datasette. I’m collecting examples of datasette-powered APIs on the project wiki.

# 14th November 2017, 7:39 am / github, projects, datasette

Datasette for Polar Bears. I found a fun dataset of Polar Bear ear tag tracking data put out by the USGS Alaska Science Center and deployed it using datasette in just a couple of minutes—here’s how I did it.

# 14th November 2017, 5:41 am / projects, datasette

simonw/csvs-to-sqlite. I built a simple tool for bulk converting multiple CSV files into a SQLite database.

# 13th November 2017, 6:49 am / csv, github, projects, sqlite, datasette