Vienna.rb Talk Notes: Mining for Gold Using the World's #1 and Most Popular Data Format (w/ Ruby and CsvReader)

Hello,

   the talk notes from yesterday's Vienna.rb meetup titled Mining for
Gold Using the World's #1 and Most Popular Data Format (w/ Ruby and
CsvReader) [1]. The contents reads:

- Q: The World's Most Popular Data Format?
  - Data Format Timeline / History - Past, Present, Future
  - Data Formats @ Statistics Austria
    - Triva Quiz: Who Invented the Space Character in Writing (and When)?
    - Triva Quiz: Who Invented the Space Character in CSV (and When)?
  - Data Formats @ Open Gov Data Austria
  - Data Formats @ Open Gov Data United States of America (U.S.A.)
  - Data Formats @ DataHub v1
    - Data Formats @ DataHub v2  - (Tabular) Data Packages
  - And the Winner is ... Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
-  What's Comma-Separated Values (CSV) - One Format? Many Formats?
   - CSV Basics - What about commas in values?
   - CSV Basics - What about quotes in quotes?
   - CSV Basics - Many Formats / Dialects / Variants?
   - CSV Basics - Edge Cases
   - CSV Basics - Type Inference and Data Converters
- CSV Formats / Variants
  - CSV "The Right Way"
  - CSV "Strict"
  - CSV <3 Numeric
  - CSV <3 JSON
  - CSV <3 YAML
  - Database Export
    - PostgreSQL CSV
    - PostgreSQL Text
    - MySQL
- CsvReader Library Usage
  - What about type inference and data converters?
  - What about Enumerable?
  - What about headers?
  - What about symbol keys for hashes?
  - What about (typed) structs?
  - What about tabular data packages with pre-defined types / schemas?
- Triva Quiz - Mining for Gold - What's the country with the biggest
gold mining / production per year today?

  Happy data wrangling / mining with Ruby. Cheers. Prost.

PS: The talk slides from the 2nd talk titled Designing HexaPDF:
Iterarative Design, Orthogonality and Other Design Tools [2] by Thomas
Leitner

[1] https://github.com/geraldb/talks/blob/master/csv.md
[2] https://talks.gettalong.org/2018-10-viennarb

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