[Chicago] Data export ?

[Randy Baxley]

Great thought Sheila.  Sort of an extention on a web page of Tabula.  The
thought is building steam elsewhere though I do not know who or how open if
at all import.io might be.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:16 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> Are you thinking of providing a web site for this? I will consider the
> case where you might want to use django.
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 1. Being able to connect to some database source using sqlalchemy or
>> directly.
>>
>
> If this is not a flexible requirement it might be a deal breaker depending
> on your goal.
>
> If you use django, maybe try django-rest-pandas.
>
> https://github.com/wq/django-rest-pandas
>
> 2. Being able to display to column fields and ask the user to rearrange
>> them, select unselect them , possibly concatenate two fields,maybe
>> transform date to other format, save layout.
>>
>
> I don't know d3js or other front-end stuff to know how easy it would be to
> do this. Presumably you could write something to do the above and then call
> your restful api to submit a patch or post a new thing? <hand waves>
>
>
>> 3. Then allow export to csv or xls
>>
>
> built in to django-rest-pandas.
>
>
>> 4. Bonus feature: being able to schedule that export
>> 5. Bonus feature: being able to queue exports
>>
>
> Doable with a cron job or something more sophisticated depending on your
> needs. For a cron job, you could set up a script to call your service api.
> For something more sophisticated you could use celery to create tasks in
> your django project.
>
>
>
>
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