datopian / data-literate

Experiments in lightweight ways to create, display and share datasets and data-driven stories.

DEPRECATED

MERGED into https://portaljs.org

SEE https://portaljs.org/data-literate

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Experiments in data display.

An experimental playground for code that and examples that may find there way into Portal.js and DataHub.io.

Motivating use case

I want to turn a (data-oriented) markdown file into an elegant data-driven web page

Data-oriented markdown file is the kind of thing in https://github.com/datasets/awesome-data and its issue https://github.com/datasets/awesome-data/issues

I want things like:

• Auto-conversion of links to csv or excel files into nice tables or previews
• Create charts using react components (in markdown) a la MDX
• Have datasets as markdown files using the frontmatter for metadata
• Datasets within markdown files using backtick notation e.g. ```dataset
• Embedded csv or json data turned into nie tables

Data Literate Documents

See https://portaljs.org/data-literate

Developers

Environment variables:

• For github communication you need to set APP_GITHUB_KEY with a personal access token with read permission on public repos