NAME¶

clevercsv - CleverCSV command line tool

SYNOPSIS¶

clevercsv [-h | --help] [-V | --version] [-v | --verbose] <command ...>

DESCRIPTION¶

CleverCSV is a Python library and command line tool for dealing with messy CSV files. It consists of a number of commands that can be used to analyze, explore, or standardize a messy CSV file.

Further help and documentation can be found online at https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CleverCSV or https://clevercsv.readthedocs.io

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help

-V, --version

-v, --verbose

COMMANDS¶

The following commands are available in CleverCSV:

clevercsv-code(1)

clevercsv-detect(1)

clevercsv-explore(1)

clevercsv-standardize(1)

clevercsv-view(1)

AUTHORS¶

The CleverCSV package was originally written by Gerrit van den Burg and came out of scientific research on wrangling messy CSV files by Gerrit van den Burg, Alfredo Nazabal, and Charles Sutton. This research was conducted at and supported by The Alan Turing Institute. CleverCSV has since benefitted from a number of open-source contributors on GitHub.

REPORTING BUGS¶

If you encounter an issue in CleverCSV, please open an issue or submit a pull request at https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CleverCSV. Please don't hesitate, you're helping to make this project better for everyone!

NOTES¶

1. CleverCSV GitHub repository
https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CleverCSV

2. CleverCSV documentation
https://clevercsv.readthedocs.io

3. Wrangling Messy CSV Files by Detecting Row and Type Patterns
https://gertjanvandenburg.com/papers/VandenBurg_Nazabal_Sutton_-_Wrangling_Messy_CSV_Files_by_Detecting_Row_and_Type_Patterns_2019.pdf