![]() ![]() Making JSON more approachableĪ few weeks ago, I gave a workshop at Open Data Day here in D.C., the goal of which was to demystify JSON and make it feel as approachable as a spreadsheet. If you send someone a link to JSON, their browser displays them a bunch of gobbledygook. In other words, if you send someone a link to a CSV, their browser downloads a file for them and they open it in Excel. ![]() But maybe more importantly, there are great visual tools for working with CSVs, and few such tools for JSON. Partly, this is because tables are just simpler for people to understand, and JSON data is rarely organized like a table. JSON has become the format of choice for APIs on the web today, but JSON data is trickier to work with for many people. Tables of data are simple, and a great many people are used to working with them in Excel or Google Docs. CSVs are just spreadsheets and are a common way to let people download data in bulk. CSV and JSON are two of the most common kinds of files for open data you’ll find on the web today. ![]()
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