Data software and standards

Frictionless is an open-source toolkit that brings simplicity to the data experience - whether you're wrangling a CSV or engineering complex pipelines.

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Approachable

A lean and minimal core. Quick to understand, quick to use.

Incrementally Adoptable

Start with just what you need, scale as you grow.

Progressive

Enhance, rather than replace, your existing tools and workflows.

Frictionless Toolkit
Frictionless Data consists of two main parts, software and standards.

Frictionless Software

The Frictionless Data projects provides a rich set of open source tools and software in many programming languages for working with data.

The Frictionless Data project is built on top of the Frictionless Standards: a set of specifications that standardize working with various types of data.

Researchers

Make your research data more reproducible

Data Scientists

Easily create data processing pipelines

Data Engineers

Standardize complex data platforms

Frictionless Data Integration and Management

Data integration is the job of bringing complex data together, cleaning it up, knitting it together and pushing it into downstream applications, analytics or warehouses – and you can do this reliably, repeatedly and automatedly with Frictionless.

Packaging Data

Package data with its metadata and schema for increased usability and clarity.

Transforming Data

Data often requires some transformations, like cleaning or conversions from one format to another.

Pushing and Storing Data

Frictionless has several plugins for accessing and storing data, for example in a SQL database.

Why Frictionless?

Rufus Pollock, Frictionless Data co-creator, explains the problem Frictionless addresses through simple specifications and software.

User Testimonials

Frictionless Data project has been adopted by many organizations and individuals.

"The Frictionless Data stack is proving itself to be a solid foundation on which to build the next wave of open data. It promotes FAIR data from inception in order to build modern Open Data Portals!"

- Francisco Alves, Frictionless Contributor

"Frictionless is the happy mix of being easy to understand and use along with being extensible and open, it's pretty much the perfect way of bundling data and metadata together. Don't leave home without it :-)"

- Simon Tyrrell, Frictionless Tool Fund Grantee

"Data standards are a powerful instrument to support the next generation of users, develop compelling use cases and define new ecosystems that create jobs. Frictionless Data has helped us to achieve all of the above."

- Oleg Lavrovsky, Frictionless Tool Fund Grantee