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Consider using Excel for data storage #328

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rpruim opened this issue Jan 27, 2023 · 1 comment
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Consider using Excel for data storage #328

rpruim opened this issue Jan 27, 2023 · 1 comment
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rpruim commented Jan 27, 2023

Some advantages to using excel

  • We can include multiple sheets. That would give room for things like various cross tabulations and summaries as well metadata.
  • If people open the current CSV, they are likely to do so in Excel anyway.
  • We should really rewrite the output function anyway. (Currently it is not using any CSV-aware methods, it is just pasting strings together, that is potentially buggy.)

I'm assuming there must be some good javascript library for reading/writing Excel, but that would need to be investigated.
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We currently use xlsx in the project. This should hopefully do the trick

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