Query the Data Delivery Network
Query the DDNThe easiest way to query any data on Splitgraph is via the "Data Delivery Network" (DDN). The DDN is a single endpoint that speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol. Any Splitgraph user can connect to it at data.splitgraph.com:5432 and query any version of over 40,000 datasets that are hosted or proxied by Splitgraph.
For example, you can query the emergency_department_ed_visits_for_drug_overdose table in this repository, by referencing it like:
"pa-gov/emergency-department-ed-visits-for-drug-overdose-svnp-capx:latest"."emergency_department_ed_visits_for_drug_overdose"or in a full query, like:
SELECT
":id", -- Socrata column ID
"race_group",
"type_of_rate", -- Identifies the type of rate calculated* *Rate of Emergency Department Visits Related to Overdose per 1000 Population - calculated using quarterly counts as numerators and county populations as denominators and are based on the location of the patient’s residence *Percent of Emergency Department Visits Related to Overdose - calculated using quarterly counts as numerators and total ED visits for any cause as denominators and are based on the location of the facility
"time_measure", -- Time frame the rate is based on
"notes", -- Provides information on limitations (please see technical notes for more details here: http://www.health.pa.gov/Your-Department-of-Health/Offices%20and%20Bureaus/PaPrescriptionDrugMonitoringProgram/Documents/OverdoseDataTechnicalNotes.pdf)
"georeference",
":@computed_region_3x3q_vpda", -- This column was automatically created in order to record in what polygon from the dataset 'US House Districts for PA 2019' (3x3q-vpda) the point in column 'georeference' is located. This enables the creation of region maps (choropleths) in the visualization canvas and data lens.
":@computed_region_4fjn_fq7k", -- This column was automatically created in order to record in what polygon from the dataset 'PA County Boundaries Spatial Data Current Transportation' (4fjn-fq7k) the point in column 'georeference' is located. This enables the creation of region maps (choropleths) in the visualization canvas and data lens.
"age_group", -- Range of ages associated with the reported value
"year", -- Year the rate is based on
"time_period", -- Time frame the rate is based on in the format of Year and Calendar Quarter (YYYY QQ)
"county_code_number", -- There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania. They are number 01 through 67 in alphabetical order; 00 identifies the statewides totals.
"state_fips_code", -- These are the first 2 digits of the 5-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code that designate the State association. Each State has its own 2-digit number and each County within the state has its own 3-digit number which are combined into a 5-digit number to uniquely identify every US county. For more technical details : Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS PUBS) are issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) after approval by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to Section 111 (d) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 as amended by the Computer Security Act of 1987, Public Law 100-235. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 6-4, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the U.S., Its Possessions, and Associated Areas -- 90 Aug 31 , provides the names and codes that represent the counties and other entities treated as equivalent legal and/or statistical subdivisions of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the possessions and freely associated areas of the United States. Counties are considered to be the "first-order subdivisions" of each State and statistically equivalent entity, regardless of their local designations (county, parish, borough, etc.). Information gathered from census data - https://www.census.gov/library/reference/code-lists/ansi.html
"county_fips_code", -- The FIPS county code is a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code (FIPS 6-4) which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States, certain U.S. possessions, and certain freely associated states. This is the 3-digit part of the 5-digit county FIPS code specifically standing for the county.
"latitude_longitude", -- This is a chosen generic latitude point within each county to help with creating visualizations such as maps.
"county_name", -- Pennsylvania County name; includes PENNSYLVANIA for the statewide rates. There are 67 counties.
"rate", -- Calculated rate for each county; includes PENNSYLVANIA for the statewide rates - Type of Rate Column provides additional details. If the rate is null, please refer to the Type of Rate for description. The nulls could mean any of the following: Not Found, Unknown Not Applicable Not displayed (due to count between 1 and 4)
"overdose_type", -- Identifies the type of overdose Any Drug Overdose - includes overdoses of any substance, including alcohol, over the counter, prescription and illicit drugsAny Opioid Overdose - includes overdoses of any opioid substance, including prescription and illicit opiates, such as heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanylHeroin Overdose - includes overdoses where the chief complaint or medical notes indicate suspicion of heroin or diagnosis codes indicating heroin as the cause of the overdose; fentanyl may or may not be present depending on the type of testing performed at the facility.(please see technical notes here for more details: https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/Documents/Programs/PDMP/Pennsylvania%20Overdose%20Data%20Brief%202020.pdf
"quarter_date_start", -- Start date for the Quarter for which the data is being reported
"county_code_text", -- There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania. They are number 01 through 67 in alphabetical order; 00 identifies the statewides totals. This column has the codes formatted as text fields to integrate with other files where county codes are used in place of names and for easier coding within certain software
"longitude", -- This is a chosen generic longitude point within each county to help with creating visualizations such as maps.
"gender" -- Gender associated with the reported value
FROM
"pa-gov/emergency-department-ed-visits-for-drug-overdose-svnp-capx:latest"."emergency_department_ed_visits_for_drug_overdose"
LIMIT 100;Connecting to the DDN is easy. All you need is an existing SQL client that can connect to Postgres. As long as you have a SQL client ready, you'll be able to query pa-gov/emergency-department-ed-visits-for-drug-overdose-svnp-capx with SQL in under 60 seconds.
This repository is an "external" repository. That means it's hosted elsewhere, in this case at data.pa.gov. When you querypa-gov/emergency-department-ed-visits-for-drug-overdose-svnp-capx:latest on the DDN, we "mount" the repository using the socrata mount handler. The mount handler proxies your SQL query to the upstream data source, translating it from SQL to the relevant language (in this case SoQL).
We also cache query responses on the DDN, but we run the DDN on multiple nodes so a CACHE_HIT is only guaranteed for subsequent queries that land on the same node.
Query Your Local Engine
bash -c "$(curl -sL https://github.com/splitgraph/splitgraph/releases/latest/download/install.sh)"Read the installation docs.
Splitgraph Cloud is built around Splitgraph Core (GitHub), which includes a local Splitgraph Engine packaged as a Docker image. Splitgraph Cloud is basically a scaled-up version of that local Engine. When you query the Data Delivery Network or the REST API, we mount the relevant datasets in an Engine on our servers and execute your query on it.
It's possible to run this engine locally. You'll need a Mac, Windows or Linux system to install sgr, and a Docker installation to run the engine. You don't need to know how to actually use Docker; sgrcan manage the image, container and volume for you.
There are a few ways to ingest data into the local engine.
For external repositories (like this repository), the Splitgraph Engine can "mount" upstream data sources by using sgr mount. This feature is built around Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW). You can write custom "mount handlers" for any upstream data source. For an example, we blogged about making a custom mount handler for HackerNews stories.
For hosted datasets, where the author has pushed Splitgraph Images to the repository, you can "clone" and/or "checkout" the data using sgr cloneand sgr checkout.
Mounting Data
This repository is an external repository. It's not hosted by Splitgraph. It is hosted by data.pa.gov, and Splitgraph indexes it. This means it is not an actual Splitgraph image, so you cannot use sgr clone to get the data. Instead, you can use the socrata adapter with the sgr mount command. Then, if you want, you can import the data and turn it into a Splitgraph image that others can clone.
First, install Splitgraph if you haven't already.
Mount the table with sgr mount
sgr mount socrata \
"pa-gov/emergency-department-ed-visits-for-drug-overdose-svnp-capx" \
--handler-options '{
"domain": "data.pa.gov",
"tables": {
"emergency_department_ed_visits_for_drug_overdose": "svnp-capx"
}
}'That's it! Now you can query the data in the mounted table like any other Postgres table.
Query the data with your existing tools
Once you've loaded the data into your local Splitgraph engine, you can query it with any of your existing tools. As far as they're concerned, pa-gov/emergency-department-ed-visits-for-drug-overdose-svnp-capx is just another Postgres schema.