• DataHub

Describe DataHub here.

About

• Datahub is a tool that allows faster download/crawl, parse, load, and visualize of data. It achieves this by allowing you to divide each step into its own work folders. In each work folder you get a sample files that you can start coding.
• Datahub is for people who found some interesting data source for them, they want to download it, parse it, load it into database, provide some documentation, and visualize it. Datahub will speed up the process by creating folder for each of these actions. You will create all the programs from our base default template and move on to analyzing the data in no time.

Code Repository: https://launchpad.net/datahub

6 Rules for Data Privacy

1. Sensitive, and possibly inaccurate, information may not be used against people in financial, political, employment, and health-care settings.
2. All information should not forcing anybody to hide or protect them self against improper information use that significantly limits persons ability to exercise his/her right to freedom of association.
3. Implement a basic form of information accountability by tracking identifying information that identifies a person or corporation and could be used to held that person/corporation accountable for the compliance.
4. There should be no restriction on use of data unless specified by laws and these privacy rules.
5. Privacy is protected not by limiting the collection of data, but by placing strict rules on how the data may be used. Data that can be used in financial, political, employment, and health-care settings cannot be used for marketing and other profiling. Strict penalties should be imposed by for the breach of these use limitations. Actions that involve financial, political, employment, and health-care settings decision must be justified with reference to the specific data on which the decision was based. If the person/corporation discovers that the data is inaccurate, he or she may demand that it be corrected. Stiff financial penalties should be imposed against the agency that does not make the appropriate corrections.
6. Achieve greater information accountability only by making better use of the information that is collected, retaining the data that is necessary to hold data users responsible for policy compliance. Build the system that encourages compliance, and maximizes the possibility of accountability of violations. Technology should supplant the rules because users are aware of what they are and because they know there will be consequences, after the fact.

7 rules to get Meaning

Engineering Part

1. Acquire
2. Parse
3. Filter
4. Mine

Design Part

• 5.Represent 6.refine 7.Interact

Install DataHub

• The best way to get started with datahub is to install it in the following way:
• Setup virtualenv which will keep the installation in a separate directory.

virtualenv --no-site-packages datahubENV
New python executable in datahubENV/bin/python
Installing setuptools............done.

source datahubENV/bin/activate 

• Download the source and untar it:

wget http://launchpad.net/datahub/trunk/0.7/+download/datahub-0.7.tar.gz
tar -xzvf datahub-0.7.tar.gz

*Install it

cd datahub-0.7/
python setup.py install

• Make sure it got installed by checking a list of templates:

paster create --list-templates

• Done. Move on to the next section.

Source Install

• You also have a choice of getting the source and installing it.
• You should use this in a virtual environment, for example:

virtalenv --no-site-packages BASELINE
source BASELINE/bin/activate

Install Bazaar if its not already installed on your system:

easy_install bzr

Branch out the code. This will pull all the revision history. If you want just the recent one use checkout:

bzr branch https://code.launchpad.net/~szybalski/datahub/trunk/ datahub_code

Install it::

cd datahub_code/trunk
python setup.py develop

Create DataHub based project

• Datahub is a paster template so you run it as follows:

paster create --list-templates
paster create -t datahub

• You should see something like this:

paster create -t datahub
Selected and implied templates:
  PasteScript#basic_package  A basic setuptools-enabled package
  datahub#datahub            DataHub is a tool to help you datamine(crawl, parse, and load) any data.

Enter project name: myproject
Variables:
  egg:      myproject
  package:  myproject
  project:  myproject
Enter version (Version (like 0.1)) ['']: 
Enter description (One-line description of the package) ['']: my project
Enter long_description (Multi-line description (in reST)) ['']: this is a long description
Enter keywords (Space-separated keywords/tags) ['']: datahub dataprocess
Enter author (Author name) ['']: myname
Enter author_email (Author email) ['']: 
Enter url (URL of homepage) ['']: 
Enter license_name (License name) ['']: 
Enter zip_safe (True/False: if the package can be distributed as a .zip file) [False]: 
Creating template basic_package
Creating directory ./myproject
  Recursing into +package+
    Creating ./myproject/myproject/
    Copying __init__.py to ./myproject/myproject/__init__.py
  Copying setup.cfg to ./myproject/setup.cfg
  Copying setup.py_tmpl to ./myproject/setup.py
Creating template datahub
  Recursing into +package+
    Copying README.txt_tmpl to ./myproject/myproject/README.txt
    Recursing into crawl
      Creating ./myproject/myproject/crawl/
      Copying Readme.txt_tmpl to ./myproject/myproject/crawl/Readme.txt
      Copying __init__.py to ./myproject/myproject/crawl/__init__.py
      Copying download.sh to ./myproject/myproject/crawl/download.sh
      Copying download_list.txt_tmpl to ./myproject/myproject/crawl/download_list.txt
      Copying harvestman-+package+.xml to ./myproject/myproject/crawl/harvestman-myproject.xml
    Recursing into hdf5
      Creating ./myproject/myproject/hdf5/
      Copying READEM_hdf5.txt_tmpl to ./myproject/myproject/hdf5/READEM_hdf5.txt
      Copying __init__.py to ./myproject/myproject/hdf5/__init__.py
    Recursing into load
      Creating ./myproject/myproject/load/
      Copying __init__.py to ./myproject/myproject/load/__init__.py
      Copying model.template to ./myproject/myproject/load/model.template
    Recursing into parse
      Creating ./myproject/myproject/parse/
      Copying __init__.py to ./myproject/myproject/parse/__init__.py
    Recursing into wiki
      Creating ./myproject/myproject/wiki/
      Copying REAME.wiki_tmpl to ./myproject/myproject/wiki/REAME.wiki
Running /home/lucas/tmp/datahubENV/bin/python setup.py egg_info
Manually creating paster_plugins.txt (deprecated! pass a paster_plugins keyword to setup() instead)
Adding datahub to paster_plugins.txt

• Go into the myproject folder and start coding.
• The folder structure looks like this:

myproject
|-- myproject
|   |-- README.txt
|   |-- __init__.py
|   |-- crawl
|   |   |-- Readme.txt
|   |   |-- __init__.py
|   |   |-- download.sh
|   |   |-- download_list.txt
|   |   `-- harvestman-myproject.xml
|   |-- hdf5
|   |   |-- READEM_hdf5.txt
|   |   `-- __init__.py
|   |-- load
|   |   |-- __init__.py
|   |   `-- model.template
|   |-- parse
|   |   `-- __init__.py
|   `-- wiki
|       `-- REAME.wiki
|-- myproject.egg-info
|   |-- PKG-INFO
|   |-- SOURCES.txt
|   |-- dependency_links.txt
|   |-- entry_points.txt
|   |-- not-zip-safe
|   |-- paster_plugins.txt
|   `-- top_level.txt
|-- setup.cfg
`-- setup.py

Get stared with your data project

crawl

• crawl folder is where you crawl data. You have two choices as far as downloading. For each choice there are pre-build files, so just follow this:

harvestman

• You should use harvestman if the size of what you are trying to download is big enough that it would be too much time consuming to list each file in a download_list.txt.
• You can download a partial or the whole website using harvestman. Harvestman can use wild cards, take configuration settings to download what you need.
• Setup the config file like this:

cd crawl
harvestman --genconfig
#save or edit harvestman conf file, and then start downloading using the following command.
harvestman -C harvestman-myproject.xml

wget

• With wget you can download the files if the list of files is not big. There is a download_list.txt that will hold the url you want to download. You can specify wild cards like *.zip, *.pdf, *.txt etc.
• Download.sh is a shell script that holds wget files. By default it will only download files if they are newer then what you downloaded, and it will only download the missing parts. This saves your bandwidth and does not re-download the whole files each time. The only thing you need to do is edit download_list.txt .

#Edit download_list.txt and add url of files you want to download
cd crawl
vi download_list.txt
sh download.sh

Off Topic

RDF

• Family tree of data, work.

Bibliography

1. http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2008/06/info-accountability-cacm-weitzner.pdf