Converting CSV variation files into SQLite3

In this section, we are going to be discussing CSV variations to SQLite3. CSV file stands for comma-separated values. Perhaps I mentioned in Chapter 1, Descriptive Statistics, about how CSV isn't really a standard, and it may come as a surprise to you that the comma-separated values do not have to be separated by commas in order to still be considered a CSV file. That's the lack of standardness there. So, in this section, we're going to be downloading the MovieLens dataset. We're going to be exploring the types of CSV file formats in this particular dataset and converting these datasets using SQLite3.

Let's go back to our machine and, in the Google search, type in MovieLens dataset. The first link ...

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