Datasette is my data hammer

Re:Datasette is my data hammer by sgraaf on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @05:15AM (#34425146)

Datasette is such a neat project & tool. Simon, its developer, has built an entire ecosystem of tools around sqlite [1], Datasette [2], and automation through GH Actions, like git-scraping [3]. Also, he has been actively blogging for 20+ years [4]. I particularly enjoy his short TIL posts [5].

[1] https://github.com/simonw?tab=repositories&q=sqlite&sort=sta...

[2] https://github.com/simonw?tab=repositories&q=datasette&sort=...

[3] https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/

[4] https://simonwillison.net/

[5] https://til.simonwillison.net/

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Re:Datasette is my data hammer by matteason on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @05:32AM (#34425226)

Simon also did some brilliant stuff with Datasette based on a 2-hour long mp3 of train announcements that ScotRail released as part of a Freedom of Information reponse. A journalist called Jon Brady found it initially on the ScotRail website and tweeted about it, I chopped it up into individual announcements and crowdsourced the transcription, and Simon built a dashboard to explore them all in Datasette.

Simon's blog: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/21/scotrail/

The Datasette dashboard: https://scotrail.datasette.io/

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Re:Datasette is my data hammer by rudasn on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @12:37PM (#34429944)

He's also the co-creator of django!

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