Datasette Newsletter

The Datasette Newsletter covers updates and features about the Datasette project and its ecosystem, including software releases, plugin development, and applications for data analysis and visualization. It highlights collaborative tools, personalized data warehousing, and innovative methods for data interaction, such as comments, git scraping, and geographical querying.

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The hottest Substack posts of Datasette Newsletter

And their main takeaways

Datasette Lite, Datasette Tutorials, Datasette Cloud

78 implied HN points • 19 Aug 22
  1. Datasette Lite allows running Datasette entirely in the browser
  2. Datasette website features tutorials for getting started with Datasette
  3. Sign up for a preview of Datasette Cloud, a new hosted SaaS service

Datasette 0.50, git scraping, extracting columns

78 implied HN points • 10 Oct 20
  1. Datasette 0.50 introduces a new column actions menu for sorting and faceting data.
  2. The new datasette.client feature allows plugins to make requests to Datasette's JSON HTTP API.
  3. Git scraping involves tracking changes to data sources over time by scraping them into a Git repository.

Datasette 0.54, and querying a database by drawing on a map

19 implied HN points • 26 Jan 21
  1. Datasette 0.54 released with an in-memory database and JavaScript module support
  2. New plugin datasette-leaflet-freedraw allows querying a database by drawing on a map
  3. Other new plugins include datasette-css-properties and datasette-export-notebook
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Datasette 0.51 - new visual design, smarter plugins

19 implied HN points • 03 Nov 20
  1. Datasette 0.51 introduces a new visual design with a revamped navigation menu.
  2. Plugins in Datasette can now add links within the interface for easier access.
  3. Datasette now allows users to download binary data directly and improves URL building for internal and plugin use.

Dogsheep: Personal analytics with Datasette

0 implied HN points • 19 Oct 20
  1. Dogsheep is a project that aims to bring together personal data from various sources into a searchable database.
  2. Dogsheep offers open source tools like `twitter-to-sqlite` and `healthkit-to-sqlite` to convert personal data into SQLite databases.
  3. Datasette is working towards a 1.0 release focusing on improving the default JSON API format and plugin compatibility.