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They mainly help in four ways: - avoid data corruption when downloading/transferring/copying datasets - notice changes/updates in the original dataset - data
by lgierth 9y ago
They mainly help in four ways:
- avoid data corruption when downloading/transferring/copying datasets
- notice changes/updates in the original dataset
- dataset versioning (think how e.g. git turns directories and files into hash trees -- also called content-addressing)
- most importantly: stable names without a naming authority
- prepend 9y agoHow does this apply when you can filter / conditional exports? Is the idea that the csv has a fixed hash and if you trust that, you can trust anything else?