Welcome to databuild’s documentation!¶
Databuild is an automation tool for data manipulation.
The general principles in Databuild are:
- Low entry barrier
- Easy to install
- Easy to grasp
- Extensible
Databuild can be useful for scenarios such as:
- Documenting data transformations in your infoviz project
- Automate data processing in a declarative way
Contents¶
- Installation
- Quickstart
- Philosophy
- Buildfiles
- Python API
- Operation Functions
- Available Operation Functions
- sheets.import_data
- sheets.add
- sheets.copy
- sheets.export_data
- sheets.print_data
- columns.update_column
- columns.add_column
- columns.remove_column
- columns.rename_column
- columns.to_float
- columns.to_integer
- columns.to_decimal
- columns.to_text
- columns.to_datetime
- system.call_command
- system.remove_dir
- system.make_dir
- operations.define_operation
- operations.define_task
- operations.call_task
- Available Operation Functions
- Custom Operation
- Expressions
- Environments
- Functions
- Settings