diff --git a/contrib/connectors/pandas/models.py b/contrib/connectors/pandas/models.py
index 54c194641f0c7..d87867e7f33f2 100644
--- a/contrib/connectors/pandas/models.py
+++ b/contrib/connectors/pandas/models.py
@@ -127,8 +127,10 @@ class PandasDatasource(Model, BaseDatasource):
     """A datasource based on a Pandas DataFrame"""
 
     FORMATS = [
-        ('csv', 'CSV'),
-        ('html', 'HTML')
+        ('csv', 'csv'),
+        ('html', 'html'),
+        ('json', 'json'),
+        ('excel', 'Microsoft Excel'),
     ]
 
     # See http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/timeseries.html#offset-aliases # NOQA
@@ -159,7 +161,7 @@ class PandasDatasource(Model, BaseDatasource):
 
     name = Column(String(100), nullable=False)
     source_url = Column(String(1000), nullable=False)
-    format = Column(String(20), nullable=False)
+    format = Column(ChoiceType(FORMATS), nullable=False)
     additional_parameters = Column(JSONType)
 
     user_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('ab_user.id'))
@@ -260,12 +262,11 @@ def data(self):
         d['granularity_sqla'] = utils.choicify(self.dttm_cols)
         d['time_grain_sqla'] = [(g, g) for g in self.GRAINS.keys()]
         logging.info(d)
-        print(d)
         return d
 
     @property
     def pandas_read_method(self):
-        return getattr(pd, 'read_{obj.format}'.format(obj=self))
+        return getattr(pd, 'read_{obj.format.code}'.format(obj=self))
 
     @property
     def pandas_read_parameters(self):
diff --git a/contrib/connectors/pandas/views.py b/contrib/connectors/pandas/views.py
index c02216b74b2f0..3937e4f05fb2e 100644
--- a/contrib/connectors/pandas/views.py
+++ b/contrib/connectors/pandas/views.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 from flask_babel import lazy_gettext as _
 from flask_babel import gettext as __
+from wtforms import SelectField
 
 from superset import appbuilder, db, utils, security, sm
 from superset.utils import has_access
@@ -22,6 +23,17 @@
 from .models import PandasDatasource, PandasColumn, PandasMetric
 
 
+class ChoiceTypeSelectField(SelectField):
+    """A SelectField based on a ChoiceType model field."""
+
+    def process_data(self, value):
+        """Use the code rather than the str() representation as data"""
+        try:
+            self.data = value.code
+        except AttributeError:
+            super(ChoiceTypeSelectField, self).process_data(value)
+
+
 class PandasColumnInlineView(CompactCRUDMixin, SupersetModelView):  # noqa
     datamodel = SQLAInterface(PandasColumn)
 
@@ -145,12 +157,20 @@ class PandasDatasourceModelView(DatasourceModelView, DeleteMixin):  # noqa
     order_columns = [
         'link', 'changed_on_']
     add_columns = ['name', 'source_url', 'format']
+    add_form_extra_fields = {
+        'format': ChoiceTypeSelectField(_('Format'),
+                                        choices=PandasDatasource.FORMATS)
+    }
     edit_columns = [
         'name', 'source_url', 'format',
         'filter_select_enabled', 'slices',
         'fetch_values_predicate',
         'description', 'owner',
         'main_dttm_col', 'default_endpoint', 'offset', 'cache_timeout']
+    edit_form_extra_fields = {
+        'format': ChoiceTypeSelectField(_('Format'),
+                                        choices=PandasDatasource.FORMATS)
+    }
     show_columns = edit_columns + ['perm']
     related_views = [PandasColumnInlineView, PandasMetricInlineView]
     base_order = ('changed_on', 'desc')
diff --git a/dev-reqs.txt b/dev-reqs.txt
index 0a2d8b835366b..0705bd2da4a32 100644
--- a/dev-reqs.txt
+++ b/dev-reqs.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-beautifulsoup4==4.6.0
 codeclimate-test-reporter
 coveralls
 flake8
 flask_cors
-lxml==3.8.0
 mock
 mysqlclient
 nose
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 53c5dc497128a..1988c10a730f7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ def get_git_sha():
     zip_safe=False,
     scripts=['superset/bin/superset'],
     install_requires=[
+        'beautifulsoup4==4.6.0',
         'boto3==1.4.4',
         'celery==3.1.25',
         'colorama==0.3.9',
@@ -56,9 +57,11 @@ def get_git_sha():
         'flask-wtf==0.14.2',
         'flower==0.9.1',
         'future>=0.16.0, <0.17',
+        'html5lib==0.999999999',
         'humanize==0.5.1',
         'gunicorn==19.7.1',
         'idna==2.5',
+        'lxml==3.8.0',
         'markdown==2.6.8',
         'pandas==0.20.3',
         'parsedatetime==2.0.0',
@@ -73,6 +76,7 @@ def get_git_sha():
         'sqlparse==0.2.3',
         'thrift>=0.9.3',
         'thrift-sasl>=0.2.1',
+        'xlrd==1.1.0',
     ],
     extras_require={
         'cors': ['Flask-Cors>=2.0.0'],