curtisma / scikit-columbia

Technical report generator

scikit-columbia

A technical report generator for communicating conclusions and supporting data in a concise and pythonic manner.

Data Presentation

scikit-columbia can include data from many different sources.

• Plots
  • Matplotlib
• Tables
  • Pandas

Presentation Formats

Supports presenting reports in multiple output formats:

• PPTX
• XLSX
• PDF
• Qt GUI

Origin of the Name

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

Installation

It can be installed as a package from either conda-forge or pip. It can also be installed from source for development and extension.

Conda

PIP

Source

Development

Architecture

A model-view-controller (MVC) architecture is used for the core classes.

Extension

scikit-columbia is implemented as a namespace package to enable easy extension by dependents.

Related Projects

• ReportLab - PollyReports
• POD
• PythonReports
• Datapane

Scikit

This scikit supports the presentation of data from scipy projects.