dataphile 0.1.4

Data Science Tool

Dataphile
=========

Dataphile is a high-level python package for both data analysis and data processing. It started as
a central repository of common tasks and capabilities used by the author, but has now evolved into
something others might find useful. See [components](#Components) below.


[](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
[](https://pypi.org/project/dataphile/)
[](https://dataphile.readthedocs.io)

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**Figure**: Demonstration of Dataphile's `AutoGUI` feature.

Installation
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To install Dataphile for general purposes use Pip:

```
pip install dataphile
```

If you are using Anaconda, install using the above call to pip _from inside your environment_.
There is not as of yet a separate conda package.

Documentation
-------------

Documentation will be available at [dataphile.readthedocs.io](https://dataphile.readthedocs.io).
Currently, development of additional features is a priority, but this is a great place for
contributing to the project.

Contributions
-------------

Contributions are welcome in the form of suggestions for additional features, pull requests with
new features or bug fixes, etc. If you find bugs or have questions, open an _Issue_ here. If and
when the project grows, a code of conduct will be provided along side a more comprehensive set of
guidelines for contributing; until then, just be nice.

Road Map
--------

- **additional command line tools**<br>
Many additional command line tools are planned for future releases including tools that expose
database queries and filters. Generally, just a massive extension of the UNIX philosophy whereby
we can compose several functions together with pipes to make unique workflows.

- **data acquisition**<br>
One of the motivations for this package was to provide an easy-to-use, high-level interface to
collecting scientific data from an externel device (e.g., over USB). This, along side a simple
live data visualization feature would go a long way for high school and university student
laboratory courses to both aquire and analyze their data using all open-source tools right inside
of a [Jupyter Notebook](https://jupyter.org).

- **documentation and package management**<br>
A quickstart guide along with full documentation of all components needs to be built using Sphinx.