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by lottin 3866 days ago
What do you mean by data munging? Things like extracting data from XML files for instance?
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B1gred 3866 days ago
It can mean anything, and that is why it is hard. Many old school statisticians can not work with anything other than csv, excel spreadsheets or basic sql queries. Munging is the conversion to a nice format that can then be used for analysis.
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lottin 3866 days ago
Understood. Yeah, this sounds like a job for awk or some such specialised tool.
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