This is the transcript and video from a talk I gave at PyGotham 2020 about using SQLite, Datasette and Dogsheep to work with small data. I really like

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This is the transcript and video from a talk I gave at PyGotham 2020 about using SQLite, Datasette and Dogsheep to work with small data.

I really like the term “small data”, as a counterpoint to big data. I define small data as anything that fits on a mobile phone, and since my iPhone has half a terabyte of storage these days that ends up covering a lot of ground!

My PyGotham talk demonstrates how to find SQLite databases that already exist on your laptop, how to use Datasette to explore them, and then expands to cover Datasette as a tool for publishing data online and my Dogsheep family of tools for personal analytics.

I’m going to spend the next 20 minutes trying to convince you that almost every data problem you have should be solved using SQLite.

This is also an excuse for me to promote open source project I’ve been working on for the last three years, called Datasette.

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