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Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
46K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonETL
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10 Weeks, 20 Lessons, Data Science for All!
36K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdata-analysisJupyter NotebookData Analysis
$ npx skills add microsoft/Data-Science-For-Beginners#3
Jupyter Interactive Notebook
13K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisJupyter NotebookNotebook
$ npx skills add jupyter/notebook#4
Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.
13K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add debezium/debezium#5
Open-source data movement for ELT pipelines and AI agents — from APIs, databases & files to warehouses, lakes, and AI applications. Both self-hosted and Cloud.
22K starsAug 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonData Analysis
$ npx skills add airbytehq/airbyte#6
Empowering Data Intelligence with Distributed SQL for Sharding, Scalability, and Security Across All Databases.
21K starsJun 25, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add apache/shardingsphere#7
Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
8.7K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoETL
$ npx skills add redpanda-data/connect#8
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
49K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonData Analysis
$ npx skills add pandas-dev/pandas#9
An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
32K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisTypeScriptNotebook
$ npx skills add lfnovo/open-notebook#10
Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:
113K starsMay 28, 2026 pushdata-analysisShellData Visualization
$ npx skills add d3/d3#11
Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.
63K starsJul 2, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonETL
$ npx skills add pathwaycom/pathway#12
DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system
39K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add duckdb/duckdb#13
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add cockroachdb/cockroach#14
$ npx skills add apache/flink#15
A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3 and Oracle, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
20K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaScriptSQL
$ npx skills add knex/knex#16
MyBatis SQL mapper framework for Java
20K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
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