Teamtools Data Utilities
Overview
Data Utilties is one of the central building blocks of the Teamtools Studio. It is primarily a means of organizing and tracking the changes in 2D data (think spreadsheets). It is used as the primary data structure in Tower and Dexter, and is used liberally elsewhere throughout the TTS project.
It is a reality that much of Systems Engineering is executed via spreadsheets and tables. They are the media in which the most SEs are the most comfortable, so data utils provides methods to read, write, manipulate, convert, and mange tabular data. It goes beyond a library like Pandas by providing a core DataContainer class and examples of extensions of it to provide the custom behavior needed for each bespoke data source.
For cases where data is too complex for a single 2D table, Data Utilities also handles the nesting of tables where each row in a table can be associated with a subtable.
Data Utilities also provides significant quality of life functionality for diffing containers (including visual diff) and visualizing them in custom ways in with HTML, Excel, and DOCX output styles.
Additionally, Data Utilities provides a lorem ipsum data generation feature that allows you to quickly create containers with semi-realistic dummy data for prototyping and testing purposes.
Projects Currently Supported
- Europa Clipper
- Mars 2020/Perseverance
- Mars Sample Return/Sample Retrieval Lander
- Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity
- Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter
- NISAR
- Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2)
Architecture
TTS dependencies
- Teamtools Studio Utilities
- HTML Utilites