How to Contribute to The Data School

Welcome to the Data School. We are building a thriving community of contributors, reviewers and readers. Help contribute to the site!

While at The Data School let us know if you find any of the following:

• Areas that you want more info on
• Any mistakes or errors
• Topics you want to contribute to

Comment on our Google Docs

There are links to the Google Doc version of each chapter at the bottom of the page:

Reach out on Slack

We have channels for each of these in our Slack:

• #book-expansion
• #book-edits
• #book-contribute

Go here to join the Data School Slack

If you want to contribute more substantially to a book or help write our next one please reach out to me (@MattDavid) in The Data School’s Slack.

Make a Pull Request

Our whole site is public and open to contributors. Feel free to make a pull request: https://github.com/chartio/dataschool

Code of Conduct

This is a collaborative project to create the best resource for creating data driven organizations.

So by definition this means that we need to be open and helpful to everyone here to accomplish our goal. This is what we expect of everyone. If there is any behavior here you find in conflict with that please reach out to me directly.

9 Chapters need Contribution

• Comparing to Historical Averages (In progress)
• How to Explore Data (In progress)
• Third Normal Form (In progress)
• Drop all tables Postgres (In progress)
• Hierarchical data in SQL (In progress)
• List the tables in SQLite opened with ATTACH (In progress)
• Show Tables in Postgres (In progress)
• UPDATE with JOIN in SQL (In progress)
• Democratized or Centralized - choosing your workflow (In progress)