July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
715 pages
17h 3m
English
Content preview from Java: Data Science Made Easy
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Overview of CSV data
Comma Separated Values (CSV) files, contain tabular data organized in a row-column format. The data, stored as plaintext, is stored in rows, also called records. Each record contains fields separated by commas. These files are also closely related to other delimited files, most notably Tab-Separated Values (TSV) files. The following is a part of a simple CSV file, and these numbers are not intended to represent any specific type of data:
JURISDICTION NAME,COUNT PARTICIPANTS,COUNT FEMALE,PERCENT FEMALE 10001,44,22,0.5 10002,35,19,0.54 10003,1,1,1
Notice that the first row contains header data to describe the subsequent records. Each value is separated by a comma and corresponds to the header in the same position. In ...