[okfn-labs] [idea-rfc]: DataPipes - Streaming Online Data Transformation!

Mon May 6 16:19:16 UTC 2013

Hi Rufus,

Anything like http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ ? (Note: I haven't had time to
use it yet, so can't vouch for suitability, but it seems like the right
thing.)

I would be glad to see integratable components as well (but I like the
streaming data idea).
They probably exist, but mostly don't seem to match exactly what I'm
looking for to do a specific job quickly, and then things like
https://github.com/CottageLabs/metadata-enhancement/blob/master/csv_utils.pyoccur,
and clearly many people need to do similar tasks :).

Greetings,
Emanuil

On 6 May 2013 15:49, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> At last week's Open Data Maker Night here in London some of us [1] started
> kicking around an idea we called *Data Pipes. *The basic pitch was [2]:
>
> *Data Pipes would be a service to do streaming online data transformation.
> Heavily inspired by unix shell with its pipes and utilities like cut,
> grep, sed, sort, uniq etc. We want to work with streams so focus
> (initially) is on CSV files.*
>
> As a demonstration of the idea the barest prototype has been put together:
>
> http://datapipes.okfnlabs.org/  -  (source code on github<https://github.com/okfn/datapipes>
> )
>
> This is barely functional - there's just one working operation (delete)
> atm - but there are plans for many more<https://github.com/okfn/datapipes/issues/9>and i already like how natural this feels in node.js.
>
> Is this useful? Do people have tips (e.g. how best to stream post data in
> node.js <https://github.com/okfn/datapipes/issues/5>)? Is anyone up for
> contributing <https://github.com/okfn/datapipes/issues>?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
> [1]: specifically Ross Jones, James Smith, David Miller and myself. Plus,
> from comments on IRC, I thik Friedrich (Lindenberg) had also been thinking
> along similar lines!
>
> [2]: the immediate motivation was a relatively non-tecchy participant at
> the open data maker night who want to remove commas from amounts in a CSV
> column before putting the data into OpenSpending. A common enough
> requirement but one which would involve some spreadsheet-fu or scripting to
> sort out. Why, we thought, shouldn't this just be a simple web-service ...
>
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