9 BLUELEAKS, BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND THE CSV FILE FORMAT
The BlueLeaks dataset is full of an overwhelming number of documents, but it’s not immediately obvious where to start or how to make sense of the data they contain. Before beginning an investigation, I needed a way to efficiently determine the significance of these documents. After manually digging through many files, I discovered that the context I needed was in the hundreds of CSV spreadsheets in each BlueLeaks folder. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to investigate CSV files like these yourself.
You’ll view CSVs in both graphical spreadsheet and text editing software, write Python code to loop through the rows of a CSV, and save CSVs of your own. You’ll then put this knowledge ...
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