Tidy tables for data processing

Posted by Bob_Mesibov on Jan 12, 2022 9:09 AM EDT
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I've seen some very pretty data tables in spreadsheets, on webpages and in word-processed documents. There were lots of colours and careful attention had been paid to font, font size and font emphasis. Of course, all that colour and data decoration is for human eyes. If the same tables were to be processed digitally, the processing program wouldn't care what the table looks like. It just wants the data to be tidy and workable. Here's what that means.

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