Frictionless Data 
Data Software and Standards
Frictionless is an open-source toolkit that brings simplicity to the data experience - whether you're wrangling a CSV or engineering complex pipelines.
Approachable
A lean and minimal core. Quick to understand, quick to use.
Incrementally Adoptable
Start with just what you need, scale as you grow.
Progressive
Enhance, rather than replace, your existing tools and workflows.
For Anyone Who Works With Data
Especially complex data or across tools or teams.
Researchers
Make your research data more reproducible
Data Scientists
Easily create data processing pipelines
Data Engineers
Standardize complex data platforms
Frictionless Data Integration and Management
Data integration is the job of bringing complex data together, cleaning it up, knitting it together and pushing it into downstream applications, analytics or warehouses – and you can do this reliably, repeatedly and automatedly with Frictionless.
Packaging Data
Package data with its metadata and schema for increased usability and clarity.
Transforming Data
Data often requires some transformations, like cleaning or conversions from one format to another.
Pushing and Storing Data
Frictionless has several plugins for accessing and storing data, for example in a SQL database.
Why Frictionless?
Rufus Pollock, Frictionless Data co-creator, explains the problem Frictionless addresses through simple specifications and software.User Testimonials
Frictionless Data project has been adopted by many organizations and individuals.
"The Frictionless Data stack is proving itself to be a solid foundation on which to build the next wave of open data. It promotes FAIR data from inception in order to build modern Open Data Portals!"
- Francisco Alves, Frictionless Contributor
"Frictionless is the happy mix of being easy to understand and use along with being extensible and open, it's pretty much the perfect way of bundling data and metadata together. Don't leave home without it :-)"
- Simon Tyrrell, Frictionless Tool Fund Grantee
"Data standards are a powerful instrument to support the next generation of users, develop compelling use cases and define new ecosystems that create jobs. Frictionless Data has helped us to achieve all of the above."
- Oleg Lavrovsky, Frictionless Tool Fund Grantee