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		hermitcrab on Feb 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A bird's eye view of Polars CSV is a terrible format. But it is extensively used. See also: Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31220841

mmmmpancakes on Feb 14, 2024 [–]

parquet is perfectly fine

> There is Parquet. It is very efficient with it’s columnar storage and compression. But it is binary, so can’t be viewed or edited with standard tools, which is a pain.

I can open parquet in excel

hermitcrab on Feb 14, 2024 | [–]

Using this connector? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/par...

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