Case Study
Explore alternatives to CSV format, like dictionaries and JSON, for flexible data serialization and processing.
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In the case study present in the previous chapters, we’ve been skirting an issue that arises frequently when working with complex data. Files have both a logical layout and a physical format. We’ve been laboring under a tacit assumption that our files are in CSV format, with a layout defined by the first line of the file. In Chapter 2, we touched on file loading. In Chapter 6, we revisited loading data and partitioning it into training and testing sets.
In both previous chapters, we trusted that the data would be in a CSV format. This isn’t a great assumption to make. We need to look at the alternatives and elevate our assumptions into a ...