Data Packages is a project that offers a standardized and extensible way of packaging up data. There is already a growing community around Data Packages and an increasing number of core datasets which can easily be grabbed from a URL.
It would be great to see easy import and export to and from a Tabular Data Package - see spec here - into a Pandas DataFrame (e.g. pd.from_datapackage(...) & pd.to_datapackage(...)).
Comment From: TomAugspurger
This would probably fit better in the (related) https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader repo. Care to open an issue there?
Comment From: noelmas
Thanks @TomAugspurger - done!
https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/80
Comment From: jorisvandenbossche
Related : https://github.com/trickvi/datapackage/issues/22
Comment From: jorisvandenbossche
Closing as out of scope for core pandas