Used For

• +**Your colleagues won't download your 50MB CSV to see if it's useful** → They get a clean preview table they can copy straight to Excel
• +**You're sharing postal code data and people keep asking "what countries are included?"** → Auto-generated maps show coverage at a glance
• +**Your GitHub repo is just raw files that look boring and technical** → Becomes a live website with charts and explanations
• +Embeds data snippets in any website - no iframe wrestling or custom database setup
• +Auto-syncs with GitHub repos - update your data, website updates instantly

Best For

• >Researchers who need to share datasets without forcing people to download mystery files
• >Open data teams tired of GitHub's plain file limits and want actual previews
• >Analysts who want to embed clean data tables in websites without wrestling with HTML

Not For

• -Teams needing private data governance - this is for public sharing only, not enterprise metadata management
• -Anyone working with huge datasets - preview tables cap out at 2,000 rows to keep browsers from crashing
• -Solo users without GitHub workflows - the real power comes from repo integration, not standalone uploads

Pairs With

• *GitHub (where your actual data lives and gets auto-synced to create the live sites)
• *Excel (what people copy your preview tables into because that's where data goes to die)
• *Google Sheets (the other place people paste your data when they can't be bothered with proper tools)
• *Jupyter Notebooks (for the actual analysis work before you publish the clean results)
• *Tableau Public (when you need fancier visualizations than DataHub's basic charts can handle)

The Catch

• !You're locked into GitHub for the full experience - no GitHub repo means you're stuck with basic previews
• !The 2,000 row limit isn't just for previews, it's to prevent the whole thing from falling over with real datasets
• !No pricing info anywhere, which usually means "contact sales" is coming for anything serious

Bottom Line

Turns your boring CSV files into shareable websites that don't look like spreadsheet vomit.