Dog and Cat Data

Re:Dog and Cat Data by hgasimov on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:15AM (#19563029)

Doing data analysis with bash seems interesting. It's perhaps the fastest way to do quick queries. But I am wondering, how much data analysis can you do with "BASHing data"?

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Re:Dog and Cat Data by robert_tweed on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:34AM (#19563160)

The main problem you will hit eventually is subtle bugs, like not handling CSV escaping correctly when, for example, the field value happens to contain a comma.

Quick and dirty and probably fine for a quick PoC if that's what you're used to, but otherwise you're probably better off with a real language with libraries designed for what you're doing.

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Re:Dog and Cat Data by joshdick on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:43AM (#19563215)

At least a few gigs on a modern computer before you start running into issues.

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