December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
188 pages
4h 2m
English
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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