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*A tool for exploring and publishing data*
Datasette provides an instant, read-only JSON API for any SQLite
database. 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`_.
Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape or size and publish that as an interactive, explorable website and accompanying API.
Some examples: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/wiki/Datasettes
Datasette is aimed at data journalists, museum curators, archivists, local governments and anyone else who has data that they wish to share with the world.
`Explore a demo <https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/fivethirtyeight>`__, watch `a video about the project <https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/25/how-instantly-publish-data-internet-datasette/>`__ or try it out by `uploading and publishing your own CSV data <https://publish.datasettes.com/>`__.
More examples: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/wiki/Datasettes
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