Frictionless Data Community Call March 2023
At our last community call on March 30th, our very own Evgeny Karev - tech lead of the Frictionless Data project at Open Knowledge Foundation (opens new window), presented the new Frictionless command line features.
The new commands have been developed as part of the effort of building recommended data workflows for different needs, and might be particularly useful for data wrangling and data exploration. Here they are:
- List function is a new command to quickly see lists of resources in a dataset.
- Describe, an old command actually, but that can be part of the exploration workflow as it infers Table Schemas for all tabular resources.
- Extract, also an old command, can be used to understand what kind of data is in the table, and get a preview of it.
- Explore, to use in combination with Visidata (opens new window) to edit tables directly in the command line.
- Query which will put a dataset into a SQLite database, with everything indexed, adding nice functionalities, like the possibility of saving queries as CSV files.
- Script is a feature that allows dataset indexing and will create Pandas dataframes for you.
- Convert, a work-in-progress command that can be used to convert from one format to the other, something that was historically done with the Extract function in the Framework.
- Publish is also a work-in-progress command, and you can use it to upload your dataset to a data portal (e.g. a CKAN instance) just providing an API key.
To better understand how you can use all these new commands, have a look at Evgeny’s presentation and demo:
# Join us next month!
Next community call is on April 27th. Keith Hughitt will share with us his ideas on how to improve support for non-tabular data, a proposed abstract data model, and a specification for describing the relationship between datasets.
Do you have something you would like to present to the community at one of the upcoming calls? Let us know via this form (opens new window), or come and tell us on our community chat on Slack (opens new window)(also accessible via a Matrix bridge (opens new window) if you prefer to use an open protocol) .
You can sign up for the call already here (opens new window). Do you want to share something with the community? Let us know when you sign up.
# Call Recording
On a final note, here is the recording of the full call, including the short presentation and community discussion on the project governance: