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cwmma on Oct 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Foursquare dataset free to download and analyze

fixed width might have technical advantages but CSV has the advantage of being able to be read by a lot of things out of the box.

timthorn on Oct 8, 2013 [–]

So does fixed width. Excel, MySQL, R, Perl... :)

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