This video course introduces DuckDB, an open-source database for data analytics in Python. It covers creating databases from files (Parquet, CSV, JSON), querying with SQL and the Python API, concurrent access, and integration with pandas and Polars.
MarkItDown is a utility for converting various files to Markdown, including PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Images, Audio, HTML, text-based formats, and ZIP files.
A new plugin for sqlite-utils CLI tool called sqlite-utils-ask allows users to ask human-language questions directly of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files, using an LLM to generate SQL queries and execute them.