Welcome to OpenTabulate’s documentation!

OpenTabulate is an open source Python package developed by the Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) at Statistics Canada. Its original use was for DEIL’s Linkable Open Data Environment (LODE) project, but has evolved since then. OpenTabulate provides the following core features:

• a programmatic way of organizing data and processing using sources files (inspired by OpenAddresses),
• transforms data to a standardized CSV format that is suitable for merging,
• configurable settings that apply simple cleanup and standardization to the data.

OpenTabulate is meant to be a simple tool, one that complements a data processing pipeline. To get started, please see Installation and Basic Usage.

Contents:

• Installation
  • Linux
• Basic usage
• Configuration
  • General section
  • Labels section
• Command line arguments
  • Runtime arguments
  • Configuration arguments
• Source files
  • How to read the tag documentation
  • Metadata and configuration tags
  • Format tags
  • Schema tags
  • Additional features
  • Debugging syntax errors
• Frequently asked questions
  • What is OpenTabulate?
  • What kind of data can OpenTabulate process?
  • How do we use OpenTabulate?
  • Why was the OpenTabulate written?
  • What limitations are present in the OpenTabulate?
  • What is the future of the OpenTabulate?
• Design specification
  • Modularity
  • Tabulation
  • Minimality
• Changelog
  • [2.1.0] - 2020-07-08
  • [2.0.0] - 2020-05-15
  • [1.0.1] - 2019-04-29
  • [1.0.0] - 2019-04-25