[757labs] Show me the data

Zach Young young.zach at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 00:38:27 EST 2010


Ah then yea. Sounds good. I thought that may be the case but wanted to
make sure. Just dealt with some fun USGS data that wasn't so nice.

zach



On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Geoff Parsons <skhisma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Totally agree Zach, I guess by CSV I really just meant "not XML". As
> throwing in tags for potentially millions of rows could be nasty.
>
> /G
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Zach Young <young.zach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Geoff Parsons <skhisma at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> CSV is probably the best bet i guess.
>>
>> I'm not a member (yet), so I guess I don't really get a vote, but I'd
>> just like to throw in my 2 cents (as a programmer) that I really
>> dislike CSV files. Tab or pipe delimited (or some other character that
>> wouldn't be used in the dataset) files are so much easier to work
>> with.
>>
>> zach
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