#CSV To REST

Can we make a CSV navigable with a UI and REST API?

Search is OK, but not hard to see patterns and relationships

THEORY: CSV data is often a Directed Graph, or Hierarchical

• State, City, Zip, address1, address2
• County, Year, Crime Code

Can we infer the graph?

Hierarchy

Copied fields are collections, like "State" has hundreds of "SC" values.

/states /states/SC /states/SC/cities/Greenville

Create a new UX

Generate a strucutre from CSV

To use the csv distinct counter tool, one needs to install Leiningen, a Clojure CLI tool. Once Leiningen is installed, exec the tool with this command: lein run path/to/csv-file.csv

Generate an API from the CSV