ANN: pandaSDMX 0.8 released - help needed to develop a UI based on IPython widgets

[Leo]

Hi,

pandaSDMX 0.8 is now available on PyPI for install with 'pip install pandasdmx'.

New Features and bug fixes:

•add support for an alternative data set format defined for SDMXML
messages. These so-called structure-specific data sets lend themselves
for large data queries. File sizes are typically about 60 % smaller
than with equivalent generic data sets. To make use of
structure-specific data sets, instantiate Request objects with agency
IDs such as ‘ECB_S’, ‘INSEE_S’ or ‘ESTAT_S’ instead of ‘ECB’ etc.
These alternative agency profiles prompt pandaSDMX to execute data
queries for structure-specific data sets. For all other queries they
behave exactly as their siblings. See a code example in chapter 5 of
the docs.
•raise ValueError when user attempts to request a resource other than
data from an agency delivering data in SCMX-JSON format only (OECD and
ABS).
•Update INSEE profile
•handle empty series properly
•data2pd writer: the code for Series index generation was rewritten
from scratch to make better use of pandas’ time series functionality.
However, some data sets, in particular from INSEE, which come with
bimonthly or semestrial frequencies cannot be rendered as PeriodIndex.
Pass parse_time=False to the .write method to prevent errors.

See the full documentation at http://pandasdmx.readthedocs.io/

On a separate note, working with SDMX data would be way more efficient
if pandaSDMX shipped with a GUI based on IPython widgets. Useful
features could include:
- Building queries across data Providers including selections from
dataflow lists and Code lists
- interaction with a DataFrame Viewer

Anyone interested in helping with such a Project is more than welcome.

Leo




Leo