boadata 0.3.2

(B)rowser (O)f (A)rbitrary Data - a Python GUI browser of data.

boadata
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(B)rowser (O)f (A)rbitrary Data - a Python browser of data.
The goal is to create a simple tool for scientists / data miners
to browse and plot various data sources in one simple environment.

It's a library, as well as a set of tools.

Concepts
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* uri - boadata tries to support odo URIs
* data object - wrapper around basic data types (a.k.a odo.resource but with wrapper)
* data tree - browseable that can contain nodes (some of the nodes can be data objects)
* data conversion - between different object types
* view - visual representation of a data objects

Executables
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* `boadescribe <uri>` - show basic info about a data object (in command-line)
* `boatree <uri>` - list nodes in a data tree
* `boaplot <uri> <colx> <coly>` - scatter plot of two columns (colx,y can be expressions like x**2, sqrt(y+2*exp(-x)) etc.)
* `boahist <uri> <col>` - histogram of a column
* `boadata [<uri>]` - full gui with a tree
* `boatable <uri>` - show tabular representation of a dataobject

Status
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* in (slow) development

Requirements
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* PyQt4
* odo
* pandas
* numpy
* six
* blinker
* numexpr
* h5py (optional)
* sqlalchemy (optional)
* pyqtgraph (optional - table support)
* matplotlib (optional)
* pandas_profiling (optional - dataframe summaries)
* Python 2.7 / 3.4+

Supported formats and sources
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* File system tree
* HDF5
* CSV
* SQL based on SqlAlchemy (sqlite supported)
* pydataset datasets

Supported views
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* Table
* Histogram
* Scatter plot
* Text view
* Summary (from pandas_profiling)