April 24, 2025, 8:37 p.m. Simon Willison, Alex Garcia
We’re excited to introduce Datasette for Newsrooms, a new product suite from Datasette Cloud built specifically for investigative journalists and data teams. It's an all-in-one data store, search engine, and collaboration platform designed to make working with data in a newsroom easier, faster, and more transparent.
datasette-pins is a new Datasette plugin that allows you to "pin" specific databases, tables, and queries to your Datasette homepage. It's part of a much larger redesign of the Datasette experience. Try it out!
Clean data, with well defined columns and rows, is a beautiful thing - the ideal starting point for any data analysis or visualization project. Sadly, very little of the world's interesting data is published in a structured format that we can start using straight away. datasette-extract is a new tool for Datasette that uses GPT-4 Turbo to create and populate database tables using data extracted from unstructured text and images.
datasette-plot is a new Datasette plugin for making visualizations from tables and SQL queries inside of Datasette. It's a spiritual successor of datasette-vega, with the goal of supporting more data visualization types and better integration with new Datasette features. Try out the demo, or install it on your Datasette instances today!
datasette-comments is a new Datasette plugin for collaborative discussions on your Datasette. You can leave comments on specific rows of your SQLite tables, @mention your collaborators and coworkers, track your work with hashtags, and more. Check out our demo read-only instance, and try it out today with Datasette Cloud or self-host it yourself!