Cookbook

Recipes for cooking with CLDF data

Writing CLDF

• creating CLDF datasets from data stored in Excel sheets
• writing CLDF data with LingPy

Reading and analyzing CLDF

• converting CLDF data to "wide" format
• plotting number of values per language on a map
• accessing CLDF data from R
• reading and writing CLDF data with LingPy
• understanding CLDF data with visidata
• exploring CLDF data with datasette
• exploring CLDF data with pycldf
• using CLDF SQL to compare phoneme inventories extracted from wordlists with PHOIBLE
• accessing geographic information in CLDF datasets

Presenting CLDF data on the web

• Serving CLDF data from a clld app
• Serving CLDF data via Datasette

CLDF and datatypes

• CLDF and interlinear glossed text

Misc

• Presentation on CLDF and large datasets