{"id":23685,"date":"2023-11-09T04:28:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T03:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/why-do-so-many-publicly-available-datasets-open-in-such-inconvenient-unusable-formats\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T04:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T03:28:22","slug":"why-do-so-many-publicly-available-datasets-open-in-such-inconvenient-unusable-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/why-do-so-many-publicly-available-datasets-open-in-such-inconvenient-unusable-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do So Many Publicly Available Datasets Open In Such Inconvenient\/unusable Formats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Trying to just view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/datasets_documentation_related.htm\">CDC datasets<\/a>, and the only format it seems to open in is text document. Why!?!? I can\u2019t tell a single thing that\u2019s going on, not even the variables being measured, because it just looks like blocks of text arranged haphazardly in the notepad app<\/p>\n<p>Some other datasets from GitHub contains EDF files and text files again, which are also super inconvenient <\/p>\n<p>Like where is the option for csv or spreadsheet, or basically anything that\u2019s readily viewable and understandable? Why isn\u2019t that the default? I was expecting that viewing the data files would be the easier part of trying to write a research paper, but no<\/p>\n<p>Also if anyone knows how to get this CDC dataset into a viewable format, please let me know! Thanks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Classic-Asparagus\"> \/u\/Classic-Asparagus <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/17r3jnd\/why_do_so_many_publicly_available_datasets_open\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/17r3jnd\/why_do_so_many_publicly_available_datasets_open\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-23685 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='23685' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-23685 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-23685 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to just view the CDC datasets, and the only format it seems to open in is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}