{"id":39661,"date":"2026-03-15T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/my-friend-didnt-know-there-was-a-simpler-way-to-clean-a-csv-so-i-built-one\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:28:22","slug":"my-friend-didnt-know-there-was-a-simpler-way-to-clean-a-csv-so-i-built-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/my-friend-didnt-know-there-was-a-simpler-way-to-clean-a-csv-so-i-built-one\/","title":{"rendered":"My Friend Didn&#8217;t Know There Was A Simpler Way To Clean A CSV. So I Built One."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>A few months ago I was sitting with my friend who&#8217;s doing his data science degree. He had a CSV file, maybe 500 rows, and just needed to clean it before running his model -&gt; remove duplicates, fix some inconsistent date formats, that kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>He opened Power BI because that&#8217;s genuinely what his college taught him. It worked, but it took 20 minutes for something that felt like it should take 2.<\/p>\n<p>I realized the problem wasn&#8217;t him, there just aren&#8217;t many tools that sit between &#8220;write pandas code&#8221; and &#8220;open a full BI suite&#8221; for basic data cleaning. That gap is what I wanted to fill.<\/p>\n<p>So I built DatumInt. Drop in a CSV or Excel file, it runs entirely in your browser, nothing goes to a server. <\/p>\n<p>It auto-detects what&#8217;s wrong &#8211; duplicates, encoding issues, messy date formats, empty columns &#8211; gives you a health score and fixes everything in one click.<\/p>\n<p>No code. No heavy software. No signup. Still early and actively improving it.<\/p>\n<p>Curious what data quality issues you hit most often &#8211; what would make a tool like this actually useful to you?<\/p>\n<p>(Disclosure: I&#8217;m the developer of this tool)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/PriorNervous1031\"> \/u\/PriorNervous1031 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1rubmx5\/my_friend_didnt_know_there_was_a_simpler_way_to\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1rubmx5\/my_friend_didnt_know_there_was_a_simpler_way_to\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-39661 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='39661' data-nonce='72e055e984' 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-39661 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-39661 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I was sitting with my friend who&#8217;s doing his data science degree. He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39661","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\/39661","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}