boadata 0.3.6

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

(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

• 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

Run command –help to see full list of options

• 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 (GUI)

• boacat <uri> - print tabular representation of a dataobject (command-line)

• boaview <uri> - show a tabbed window with all available views for the dataobject

Status

• in (slow) development

Requirements

• PyQt4 (to become optional / replaceable with PySide/PyQt5)

• odo

• pandas

• numpy

• numexpr

• click

• tabulate

• six (perhaps to be removed)

• blinker (perhaps to be removed)

• h5py (optional)

• sqlalchemy (optional)

• pyqtgraph (to be removed)

• matplotlib (to become optional)

• bokeh (to become optional instead of matplotlib)

• seaborn

• pandas_profiling (optional - dataframe summaries)

• Python 3.4+

Supported formats and sources

• File system tree

• HDF5

• CSV (including web links)

• SQL based on SqlAlchemy (sqlite supported)

• pydataset datasets

• seaborn datasets

• MATLAB .fig files

Supported GUI views

• Table

• Histogram

• Scatter / line plot

• Text view

• Summary (from pandas_profiling)