CSVs: Why I Gave Up Some of Their Benefits to Gain Others

The alternative I use allows for smaller file sizes and better performance.

Thuwarakesh Murallie
Towards Data Science
8 min readMay 21, 2022

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CSVs are good, but they’re overrated.

I’ve been using CSV for a very long time. Just as the rest of the data science community. Then Pickle for some time.

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I write about data science and consult at Stax, where I help clients unlock insights from data to drive business growth. https://www.the-analytics.club