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I think an `.csv` is very useful for any kind of one- or two-dimensional numerical data, and even a lot of non-numerical data. It's very simple, human-readable.
by tomp 9y ago
I think an `.csv` is very useful for any kind of one- or two-dimensional numerical data, and even a lot of non-numerical data. It's very simple, human-readable. E.g. if you have an API, a `.csv` backend in addition to other (e.g. `.json` or `.mat` or similar) makes it much easier for a human to inspect the data.
- emodendroket 9y agoAh, but this very article informs us that the idea that CSVs are necessarily human-readable is a falsehood programmers believe. Besides that, anybody who is troubled by working with something like JSON is not going to look at raw CSV. They're going to use Excel.