# Working With Data

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## [About the Working With Data category](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/about-the-working-with-data-category/23)

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**Author:** [@tdooner](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/tdooner)\
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Ask questions or share tools/tips/tricks relating to collecting, extracting, transforming, analyzing, or presenting data.

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## [The Iceberg of Open Data (v0.2)](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/the-iceberg-of-open-data-v0-2/341)

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**Author:** [@patwater31](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/patwater31)\
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**Last updated:** [March 6, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/the-iceberg-of-open-data-v0-2/341 "2019-03-06T17:09:37Z")

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The motivation with this diagram is that the government open data movement has largely failed to live up to its early hype though there’s still tremendous potential. That may sound harsh though if we’re honest with ou…

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## [Datasette provides an instant, read-only JSON API for any SQLite database](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/datasette-provides-an-instant-read-only-json-api-for-any-sqlite-database/280)

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**Author:** [@dacresni](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/dacresni)\
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**Last updated:** [September 26, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/datasette-provides-an-instant-read-only-json-api-for-any-sqlite-database/280 "2018-09-26T17:00:17Z")

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https://github.com/simonw/datasette/wiki/Datasettes . It also provides tools for packaging the database up as a Docker container and deploying that container to hosting providers such as Zeit Now or Heroku. and a compa…

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## [Ever have spreadsheet data that needs to be in web-friendly format? Meet Mr. Data Converter!](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/ever-have-spreadsheet-data-that-needs-to-be-in-web-friendly-format-meet-mr-data-converter/165)

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**Author:** [@carlvlewis](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/carlvlewis)\
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**Last updated:** [June 8, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/ever-have-spreadsheet-data-that-needs-to-be-in-web-friendly-format-meet-mr-data-converter/165 "2018-06-08T16:52:20Z")

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The amazing Shan Carter of NYT made this indispensable tool for us all to enjoy a few years back: https://shancarter.github.io/mr-data-converter/ csv or xls woes got you down :frowning:? paste it on into Mr. Data Conv…