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
• Custom Operation
• Expressions
• Environments
  • Included Environments
    • Python
  • Writing Custom Environments
  • Add-on Environments
    • Lua
• Functions
  • Available Functions
    • cross
    • column
  • Custom Functions Modules
• Settings
  • ADAPTER
  • LANGUAGES
  • FUNCTION_MODULES
  • OPERATION_MODULES

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page