This is a real puzzler. I have a client who retrieves daily reports via their intranet website. These reports are generally CSV files, and the user clicks a link directly to the file. Clicking these ...

If you don’t know what CSV stands for, stop right here. It stands for “comma-separated values” and is a funny, least-common-denominator format used to pass field-based data in rows—tabular ...

Web apps love exporting CSV files, but they don't always play nice with Excel. Leading zeros disappear, dates break, and text fields merge together. Most people waste time fixing these problems ...

In a previous article, I looked at Grafana, a free, open-source data visualization tool. In the past, I tried (and failed) to use it to create a simple graph using CSV files, which is a bit of an ...