diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..22b934d44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.csv filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.tsv filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/server/requirements.txt b/server/requirements.txt
index 5067ec730..83d114430 100644
--- a/server/requirements.txt
+++ b/server/requirements.txt
@@ -13,10 +13,17 @@ itsdangerous==1.1.0
 Jinja2==2.10.3
 MarkupSafe==1.1.1
 multidict==4.5.2
+numpy==1.17.4
+pandas==0.25.3
+psycopg2==2.8.4
+python-dateutil==2.8.1
+pytz==2019.3
 requests==2.22.0
 requests-async==0.5.0
 rfc3986==1.3.2
 sanic==19.9.0
+six==1.13.0
+SQLAlchemy==1.3.11
 ujson==1.35
 urllib3==1.25.7
 uvloop==0.14.0
diff --git a/server/src/app.py b/server/src/app.py
index 0167e55f2..86e9f6f92 100644
--- a/server/src/app.py
+++ b/server/src/app.py
@@ -4,14 +4,24 @@
 from services.time_to_close import time_to_close
 from services.frequency import frequency
 from services.ingress_service import ingress_service
+from configparser import ConfigParser
+
 
 app = Sanic(__name__)
-app.config.from_pyfile(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'settings.cfg'))
+
+def configure_app():
+    # Settings initialization
+    config = ConfigParser()
+    settings_file = os.path.join(os.getcwd(),'settings.cfg')
+    config.read(settings_file)
+    app.config['Settings'] = config
+
 
 @app.route('/')
 async def index(request):
     return json('You hit the index')
 
+
 @app.route('/timetoclose')
 async def timetoclose(request):
     ttc_worker = time_to_close()
@@ -20,6 +30,7 @@ async def timetoclose(request):
 
     return json(return_data)
 
+
 @app.route('/requestfrequency')
 async def requestfrequency(request):
     freq_worker = frequency()
@@ -28,28 +39,44 @@ async def requestfrequency(request):
 
     return json(return_data)
 
+
 @app.route('/sample-data')
 async def sample_route(request):
     sample_dataset = {'cool_key':['value1', 'value2'], app.config['REDACTED']:app.config['REDACTED']}
     return json(sample_dataset)
 
-@app.route('/injest')
-async def injest(request):
-    ingress_worker = ingress_service()
-    return_data = ingress_worker.injest()
+
+@app.route('/ingest', methods=["POST"])
+async def ingest(request):
+    '''Accept POST requests with a list of datasets to import\
+       based on the YearMapping. Body parameter format is \
+       {"sets": ["YearMappingKey","YearMappingKey","YearMappingKey"]}'''
+
+    ingress_worker = ingress_service(config=app.config['Settings'])
+    return_data = {'response':'ingest ok'}
+
+    for dataSet in request.json.get("sets", None):
+        target_data = app.config["Settings"]["YearMapping"][dataSet]
+        return_data = await ingress_worker.ingest(from_dataset=target_data)
+
     return json(return_data)
 
+
 @app.route('/update')
 async def update(request):
     ingress_worker = ingress_service()
     return_data = ingress_worker.update()
     return json(return_data)
 
+
 @app.route('/delete')
 async def delete(request):
     ingress_worker = ingress_service()
     return_data = ingress_worker.delete()
     return json(return_data)
 
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    app.run(host=app.config['HOST'], port=app.config['PORT'], debug=app.config['DEBUG'])
+    configure_app()
+    app.run(host=app.config['Settings']['Server']['HOST'], port=app.config['Settings']['Server']['PORT'], debug=app.config['Settings']['Server']['DEBUG'])
diff --git a/server/src/services/ingress_service.py b/server/src/services/ingress_service.py
index b7c9970d8..462e8d8f2 100644
--- a/server/src/services/ingress_service.py
+++ b/server/src/services/ingress_service.py
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
+from .sqlIngest import DataHandler
+
 class ingress_service(object):
-    def __init__(self):
-        pass
+    def __init__(self, config=None):
+        self.config = config
+
 
-    def injest(self):
-        return {'response':'injest ok'}
+    async def ingest(self, from_dataset=None):
+        loader = DataHandler(config=self.config)
+        loader.loadData(fileName=from_dataset)
+        loader.cleanData()
+        loader.ingestData()
+        return {'response':'ingest ok'}
 
     def update(self):
         return {'response':'update ok'}
@@ -13,3 +20,10 @@ def delete(self):
 
     def hello_world(self):
         return {'response':'hello from frequency service'}
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    from configparser import ConfigParser
+    config = ConfigParser()
+    config.read('../settings.cfg')
+    worker = ingress_service(config = config)
+    worker.ingest()
diff --git a/server/src/sqlIngest.py b/server/src/services/sqlIngest.py
similarity index 85%
rename from server/src/sqlIngest.py
rename to server/src/services/sqlIngest.py
index 73498b2b5..98aa6abcc 100644
--- a/server/src/sqlIngest.py
+++ b/server/src/services/sqlIngest.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import os
 from sqlalchemy.types import Integer, Text, String, DateTime, Float
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
 import pandas as pd
@@ -6,26 +7,40 @@
 import logging
 
 class DataHandler:
-    def __init__(self):
+    def __init__(self, config=None, configFilePath=None, separator=','):
         self.data     = None
-        self.config   = None
-        self.dbString = None
-        self.csvPath  = None
-        self.configFilePath = None
+        self.config   = config
+        self.dbString = None if not self.config else self.config['Database']['DB_CONNECTION_STRING']
+        self.filePath  = None
+        self.configFilePath = configFilePath
+        self.separator = separator
+
+
     def loadConfig(self, configFilePath):
         '''Load and parse config data'''
+        if self.config:
+            print('Config already exists at %s. Nothing to load.' % self.configFilePath)
+            return
+
         print('Loading config file %s' % self.configFilePath)
         self.configFilePath = configFilePath
         config = ConfigParser()
         config.read(configFilePath)
         self.config   = config
-        self.dbString = config['Main']['DB_CONNECTION_STRING']
-        self.csvPath  = "%s311data.tsv" % (config['Main']['CSV_DIRECTORY'])
-    def loadData(self):
+        self.dbString = config['Database']['DB_CONNECTION_STRING']
+
+
+    def loadData(self, fileName="311data"):
         '''Load dataset into pandas object'''
-        print('Loading dataset %s' % self.csvPath)
-        self.data = pd.read_table(self.csvPath,
-                                    sep='\t',
+        if self.separator == ',':
+            dataFile = fileName + ".csv"
+        else:
+            dataFile = fileName + ".tsv"
+
+        self.filePath  = os.path.join(self.config['Database']['DATA_DIRECTORY'], dataFile )
+        print('Loading dataset %s' % self.filePath)
+        self.data = pd.read_table(self.filePath,
+                                    sep=self.separator,
                                     na_values=['nan'],
                                     dtype={
                                     'SRNumber':str,
@@ -62,6 +77,7 @@ def loadData(self):
                                     'NCName':str,
                                     'PolicePrecinct':str
                                     })
+
     def cleanData(self):
         '''Perform general data filtering'''
         print('Cleaning 311 dataset...')
@@ -80,12 +96,13 @@ def cleanData(self):
         data['service_created'] = data.ServiceDate-data.CreatedDate
         # drop NA values and reformat closed_created in units of hours
         data = data[~data.closed_created.isna()]
-        # New column: closed_created in units of days 
+        # New column: closed_created in units of days
         data['closed_createdD'] = data.closed_created / pd.Timedelta(days=1)
         # xFUTURE: Geolocation/time clustering to weed out repeat requests
         # xFUTURE: Decide whether ServiceDate or ClosedDate are primary metric
         # xFUTURE: Removal of feedback and other categories
         self.data = data
+
     def ingestData(self):
         '''Set up connection to database'''
         print('Inserting data into Postgres instance...')
@@ -140,10 +157,7 @@ def ingestData(self):
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     loader = DataHandler()
-    loader.loadConfig('settings.cfg')
+    loader.loadConfig('../settings.cfg')
     loader.loadData()
     loader.cleanData()
     loader.ingestData()
-
-
-
diff --git a/server/src/settings.example.cfg b/server/src/settings.example.cfg
index 992d8d3ff..b66018e5e 100644
--- a/server/src/settings.example.cfg
+++ b/server/src/settings.example.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
-[Main]
+[Server]
 DEBUG = True
 HOST = 0.0.0.0
 PORT = 5000
-DB_CONNECTION_STRING = postgres://REDACTED:REDACTED@somehost/postgres
+
+[Database]
+DB_CONNECTION_STRING = postgres://REDACTED:REDACTED@localhost:5432/postgres
+DATA_DIRECTORY = .
+
+[Api]
 REDACTED = REDACTED
+
+[YearMapping]
+2018_MINI = 2018_mini
+2018_FULL = 311data
diff --git a/server/src/static/2018_full.csv b/server/src/static/2018_full.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c29cdbcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/static/2018_full.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:99801a8dcab82bdefacc4d523db28688b202490a3169add98bd3cdd8a841e857
+size 418716116
diff --git a/server/src/static/2018_mini.csv b/server/src/static/2018_mini.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7a5ee8306
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/static/2018_mini.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:3575c4ee7aff80f9c11c50c4e3063141b57ed511240751d66ce37dd00242c98e
+size 703644