The library is maintained by Nael Shiab, computational journalist and senior data producer for CBC News.

You might also find the journalism library and Code Like a Journalist interesting.

To quickly get started with simple-data-analysis, create a folder and run:

# Deno >= 2.2.x
deno -A jsr:@nshiab/setup-sda

# Node.js >= 22.6.x
npx setup-sda

# Bun
bunx --bun setup-sda

Here are the different options:

• --example: adds example files
• --scrape: adds web scraping dependencies
• --svelte: adds a Svelte project
• --pages: adds a GitHub Pages Actions workflow (works just with --svelte)
• --git: initializes a git repository and commits the initial files

You can combine options, for example, this will install web scraping dependencies, set up a Svelte project with example files, initialize a git repository and make a first commit, and add a GitHub Pages Actions workflow:

deno -A jsr:@nshiab/setup-sda --scrape --svelte --example --pages --git