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Apache Superset Quick Start Guide
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Apache Superset Quick Start Guide

by Shashank Shekhar
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
188 pages
4h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Uploading a CSV

In many types of analytical work, data is available in CSV or Excel files and not in a database. You can use the Upload a CSV feature to upload CSVs as tables in Superset, without parent database integration.

We will get some real data to test this. Let's download the Ethereum transaction history from http://etherscan.io and create a new table:

curl https://etherscan.io/chart/tx?output=csv > /tmp/eth_txn.csv  % Total    % Received % Xferd Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed100 35279    0 35279    0     0    98k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   98k# create a sqlite database to store the csvcd ~/.superset# this will create a sqlite database, quit after it opens the consolesqlite3 upload_csv.db
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