A technical report generator for communicating conclusions and supporting data in a concise and pythonic manner.
scikit-columbia can include data from many different sources.
- Plots
- Tables
Supports presenting reports in multiple output formats:
- PPTX
- XLSX
- Qt GUI
The library is named in honor of the space shuttle columbia. It was inspired by articles on how part of the cause of the tragedy was a poorly presented technical report.
- Power Point Does Rocket Science
- Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people
- Why Edward Tufte is Wrong
It can be installed as a package from either conda-forge or pip. It can also be installed from source for development and extension.
A model-view-controller (MVC) architecture is used for the core classes.
scikit-columbia is implemented as a namespace package to enable easy extension by dependents.
This scikit supports the presentation of data from scipy projects.