How to download, import, and analyze San Francisco restaurant inspection data using SQLite3 and csvkit from the command-line.
A quick example of doing data wrangling from the command-line, as well as getting to know one of San Francisco's data sets: the San Francisco restaurant inspections, courtesy of the SF Department of Public Health. I don't normally do database work from the command-line, but importing bulk data into SQLite is pretty frustrating using the available GUIs or just the shell.
So thank goodness for Christopher Groskopf's csvkit, a suite of Unix-like tools that use Python to robustly handle CSV files. There's a lot of great tools in csvkit, but for this gist, I just use csvsql, which can parse a CSV and turn it into properly-flavored SQL to pass directly into your database app of choice.