Characteristics of Open Data CSV Files. Mitlöhner, J., Neumaier, S., Umbrich, J., & Polleres, A. In 2nd International Conference on Open and Big Data, August, 2016. Invited paper
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This work analyzes an Open Data corpus containing 200K tabular resources with a total file size of 413GB from a data consumer perspective. Our study shows that ∼10% of the resources in Open Data portals are labelled as a tabular data of which only 50% can be considered CSV files. The study inspects the general shape of these tabular data, reports on column and row distribution, analyses the availability of (multiple) header rows and if a file contains multiple tables. In addition, we inspect and analyze the table column types, detect missing values and report about the distribution of the values.

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