Notices by Yann Büchau :python: (nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org)

I have come to the conclusion that the best data format for 'raw' scientific timeseries data is good-old, plain CSV (comma separated values):

- ➕ new data easily appendable to files
- 🔎 searchable with command-line tools (grep, sed, awk, perl, etc.)
- 📝 easily modifyable as well
- 🗜️ compresses like crazy ('xz -v -9' is insane, plain text compresses even better than already-dense binary measurement data in my experience)
- 📤 readable by any data analysis language

@joeyh's #gitAnnex is so immensely helpful for tracking which files in a repository are on which machine and moving them around (among many other things).

Now I just need some kind of "meta-git-annex" that tracks my several non-related git-annex repos (not their content) and tells me where they are and if they're up-to-date and the like 🙃