Frictionless Data Stream
What is Frictionless Data?
Frictionless Data (forum topic) is a project where we’re defining lightweight standards and tooling to make it easy to get, publish and use high quality data. The core of this project is the Data Package standard. Over the years, various tools have been developed across different platforms to work with Data Packages. For an example, see this recent post on Python tooling developed as part of this project.
We’ll have around five hours to work, a short time for a proper hackathon. I think it would be great to direct our efforts on some tool hacking, demoing using some existing datasets, and
Potential Tasks for Stream
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- JavaScript Developers can work on addressing some of the existing issues on GitHub - frictionlessdata/datapackage-render-js: React components for rendering Data Package Views., a library for visualizing Data Packages.
- JavaScript Developers can work on rebooting BubbleTree
- Data Wranglers can work on packaging “core” datasets from this queue
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Developers can work on a tool which converts a Excel file or Google Spreadsheet to a Tabular Data Package.
The tool will translate the datatype information (i.e. number / string / date) into a JSON Table Schema and also convert multiple sheets into multiple “resources” in Data Package. (as suggested by @akariv)