In one of my previous jobs (financial services firm), we needed some specific data from census/bls etc. We looked around to see if anyone is selling the data - they were, but they quoted tens of thousands of dollars for what amounted to be downloading and parsing of few CSV files from the gov sites. We did it ourselves. That same client was paying tons of money for other data sets, which were also public datasets. Th…
This is one reason why we made Splitgraph [0]. We index 40k+ datasets from government data portals, and we give you one Postgres endpoint where you can query all of them together. Any table in a data “product” (live or versioned) is addressable in a SQL query with `namespace/repository:tag.table`. Splitgraph parses the query and forwards it to the appropriate data source(s), translating it to whatever upstream query…
Can you give some examples of how splitgraph is used in the real world?