Month: October 2020

  • 5 Things You Can Do With csvkit

    Recently I wrote a post about building tiny data pipelines with bash and the most common feedback was that people hadn’t heard of csvkit before. It’s fairly new to me, too, so here are some things to get you started. CSV stands for comma separated values and it’s the most common data format for flat,…

  • Schmedium Data: Building little data pipelines with bash

    Schmedium Data: Building little data pipelines with bash

    Over at plotdevice.bengarvey.com I have a bunch of one-off dataviz projects, experiments, and analyses. They all run on data, but sometimes it’s not easy to get, so I end up trimming and transforming data into something I can work with. We’re not talking about big data here, more like small or medium data. Schmedium data.…