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csvlook/csvkit, apparently; something I never heard of before, which is actually not installed by default in ubuntu. He also included the data itself, which is
by scottlocklin 6y ago
csvlook/csvkit, apparently; something I never heard of before, which is actually not installed by default in ubuntu. He also included the data itself, which is pretty helpful, but which could have more usefully gone into a git repo somewhere.
Also "kids these days" all reach for docker. Otherwise any sane person would have just used cat instead of csvlook.
Upvoted the kid's article, because command line text cleaning is of TOWERING IMPORTANCE to any DS person worth their salt. But he is definitely an inexperienced kid.
- mdifrgechd 6y agoI think the csvlook utility comes from the Command Line Data Science book the author cites. I read some of that book, there was good info in there, but ultimately it was a bit annoying because it's author based a lot of things on utilities he had written himself (like csvlook) which in many cases just did trivial things you could easily have done with shell commands or coreutils.