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Guides

If you have your working environment set up, and are already familiar with the principles behind ETL, it is now time to start using ETL!

In this section you will find guides for different use cases and tasks you might want to perform with ETL.

Quick reference

Below is a list of some of the most common guides to get you started. Use the left navigation to explore all the available guides.

  •   Data work

    Create or update datasets. Keep downstream charts up-to-date. Create collections. Etc.

  •   Wizard

    Use our ETL admin tool for most of ETL work.

  •   CLI

    Our client gets to where Wizard can't reach.

  •   Staging servers

    What are they? And how do we actually work with them?

  •   Harmonize country names

    Standardize country names to use OWID's defaults.

  •   Automatic updates

    Automate regular updates of datasets.

  •   Private datasets

    Import private datasets.

  •   Environments

    All our tooling can be executed in different environments. Learn how to use them.

  •   Edit the docs

    Improve, update our documentation.

  •   OpenAI setup

    We use backporting to add legacy datasets to our catalog.