# The Future of Opendata

2018-10-11

> Datasette (previously) is my open source tool for exploring and publishing structured data. There are a lot of ideas embedded in Datasette. I realized that I haven’t put many of them into writing.

> The interesting ideas in Datasette (cache)

I am following the work of Simon Willison since the beginning and it really shapes how I envision the future of Opendata on a technical side. With each and every CSV file collected on portals spawning their own instance of datasette: a browsable, faceted, exportable tabular data. The article is about inspiring ideas behind the project, most notably the read-only choice and how it allows to use SQLite in production + heavy cache.

Opinionated and pertinent.

Other articles in English: On caching links, Bushcraft retrospective, Into the Raft, Into the Bugs, Meritocracy crisis, The Seller, the Teacher and the Wise, Into the Good, Into the Mice, Into the Camp, Into the Wind, Into the Snow, Into the Cold, Async Python Frameworks, Distributed teams, Into the Wild, Without JavaScript, Inclusive Python, Micro-cultures and governance, Resilient Web and Tools, Bitcoin and energy, Team building, Inclusive developer, Cultural Intimacy, Tools and teams, Senior developer, Slow Data, Inclusive communities, Delivery and value(s), Collaboration debt, Communities and leadership, Specifications and APIs. Oh, and most of the 2018 thoughts.