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Why shouldn't you use YAML to store eye tracking data? /s (lemmy.world)

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[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't look to much at the data but I think csv might actually be an appropriate format for this?

Nice simple plaintext and very easy to parse into a datastructure for analysing/using it in python or similar

[–] nous@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago

CSV would be fine. The big problem with the data as presented is it is a YAML list, so needs the whole file to be read into memory and decoded before you get and values out of it. Any line based encoding would be vastly better and allow line based processing to be done. CSV, json objects encoded into a single line, some other streaming binary format. Does not make much difference overall as long as it is line based or at least streamable.