I don't doubt this guy's assertion that the data could be formatted better, but if I were working on something like this I'd just be glad that I could access the data at all.

And 64 lines of code... bfd? That's much better than the bad old days of custom binary data formats where you have to write a thousand line data loader in C, worrying about issues like lsb vs msb, whether the number storage is properly following IEEE 754, etc.

I guess I'm just...old, because my first response to 'I had to write 64 lines of Python code to get this data into shape' is to shake my head and think "Kids these days!".