CSV to something
Just revived my old script into a project in GitHub, csv_to_something. An old simple script that was created to manage some student data. Because the students data were collected through Google Forms, so I convert it to CSV, then from CSV to SQLite. So that I can use the SQL to query whatever data I need.
Using SQLite software such as sqliteman and sqlitebrowser, I can create any new table, grouping, sorting etc.
Then recently, I need some JSON data for the table. So, I revive the script to convert CSV to JSON format. With the functional programming characteristic in JavaScript, manipulating the data becomes more interesting. Using Node or any JavaScript interpreter, we can perform map and reduce. Other useful functions like find and filter can get what I want. Example,
[code language=“javascript”] // Read the JSON data as object let students; fs.readFile(’./table.json’, (err, content) => { if (err) throw err; students = JSON.parse(content); }); let average = students.reduce((reduced, item) => item.score, 0) / data.length; let grades = students.map(student => { if (student.score >= 90) return ‘A’; else if (student.score < 90 && student.score >= 70) return ‘B’; else return ‘Something else’; }); [/code]
Why SQLite and JSON? Because they are extremely lightweight.