/datasette-statistics

SQL statistics functions for Datasette

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datasette-statistics

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SQL statistics functions for Datasette

Installation

Install this plugin in the same environment as Datasette.

$ datasette install datasette-statistics

Usage

This plugin adds three new SQL aggregate functions for use within Datasette:

  • statistics_mean() for calculating the mean
  • statistics_median() for calculating the median
  • statistics_mode() for calculating the mode

All three use the implementations from the Python statistics library.

Use them like this:

select statistics_mean(numeric_column) from mytable

Development

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd datasette-statistics
python3 -mvenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Or if you are using pipenv:

pipenv shell

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest