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Ask HN: What's the best way to expose random CSV/.xlsx files for future queries

5 pointsby mtrabout 1 year ago
What&#x27;s the best way to expose random CSV&#x2F;.xlsx files that I can query in the future? We&#x27;re house hunting and it would be nice have a local db to keep track of price changes, asking prices, photos, etc.<p>And look up (local) municipal OpenData for an address and grab the lot size, zoning, etc.<p>I&#x27;m using Airtable and sometimes Excel, but it would be nice to have a home (hobby) setup for storing queryable data. Could be cloud hosted but &quot;affordable&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m very comfortable in Excel (Pivot Tables, but don&#x27;t speak SQL. Reasonably comfortable with PowerBI. But that&#x27;s about it.

4 comments

oulipoabout 1 year ago
perhaps using datasette? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasette.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasette.io&#x2F;</a>
solardevabout 1 year ago
Gsheets? You can easily get it out as a JSON <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freecodecamp.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;cjn-google-sheets-as-json-endpoint&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freecodecamp.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;cjn-google-sheets-as-json-...</a><p>You can also script it to do integrated geo lookups with Apps Script
akerl_about 1 year ago
What are you planning to query them with? What makes the native CSV&#x2F;XLSX files not viable?
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mkranjecabout 1 year ago
You can query CSV with DuckDB