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Welcome to The Data-flo Cookbook

This 'cookbook' has a collection of examples or 'recipes' to show you how to make the most of Data-flo. Data-flo (pronounced data-flow) is an open-source web application for data integration. It provides an easy-to-use visual interface to design reusable Workflows (data pipelines) that import, merge, clean, and manipulate data in many different ways. Once a Workflow has been created, it can be run anytime, by anyone with access, to enable push-button data extraction and transformation.

Tip

Data-flo can be installed behind your firewall to enable you to visualise sensitive data safely. To request a quote for the supported, Docker-packaged instance, please email data-flo(at)cgps.group.

License

Unless otherwise stated, content presented here is under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, which basically means you are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Given:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

How to use this cookbook

The best way to use this cookbook is to browse the various recipes listed on the right, and try to recreate them yourself with the example data provided. These will hopefully provide inspiration for possible visualisations you can create with your own data. You can save these recipes as a pdf, by using your browser's print function and choosing Save as pdf as the printer.

If you have never used Data-flo before, please start with the recipe, Merging two datatables (Excel sheets). This recipe was written as an introduction to data-flo in general, as such, it will be a detailed step-by-step walkthrough.

Tip

If you are interested in Microreact, there is similar cookbook for Microreact at https://microreact-cookbook.netlify.app/