What is the best way for a website to format data to the public?
I already have my presentation, but I can also provide it as a .xls, .csv, sql, or html table.
What would be best to help programmers/data scientists use my data?
I already have my presentation, but I can also provide it as a .xls, .csv, sql, or html table.
What would be best to help programmers/data scientists use my data?
2) CSV, JSON works fine if your dataset is just a few numbers and strings. GitHub will preview csv files as HTML tables.
3) If you need the efficiency of binary data and more robust data containers I would look into - Parquet https://parquet.apache.org/documentation/latest/ and - Arvo http://avro.apache.org/ http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2009/11/avro-a-new-format-for-...
4) DataScientists work with R/Pandas "DataFrames". If you are familiar with either one, import the data into a data frame and use an export method to do the serialization for you: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/api.html#id12
- simple
- lightweight
- open
It's easy for the consumer of your data to convert a CSV to whatever format they need.
- spreadsheet, for personal analysis
- SQL database, for industrial-strength analysis
- HTML, for pretty output to their users
There's a wide set of tooling for Tabular Data Packages, plus underlying data is CSV which anyone can use.
If you want this done automatically you can just publish your CSV to https://datahub.io/ and your Tabular Data Package is made automatically for you.