Data import wizard should automatically estimate the column separator

yzanyzan MemberPosts:66Unicorn
edited December 2018 in产品Feedback - Resolved

Reasoning: It should make imports easier.

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  • sgenzersgenzer 12Administrator, Moderator, Employee, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, Community Manager, Member, University Professor, PM ModeratorPosts:2,959Community Manager

    hello@yzan- can you give us an example of this?


    Scott

  • yzanyzan MemberPosts:66Unicorn

    RapidMiner has multiple wizards. I am specifically talking about the wizard provided by "Read CSV" operator after clicking on "Import Configuration Wizard", step 2 of 4, section "Column Separation".

    The desired functionality is implemented, for reference, in:https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html#csv.Sniffer, which is, I think, used behindhttps://github.com/okfn/messytables. Also, Calc automatically estimates the column separator in their import wizard.

    Of course, csv.Sniffer provides additional related estimates like whether the CSV file contains a header, or not. Currently, this has to be set manually in the 3rd step of the wizard.

  • sgenzersgenzer 12Administrator, Moderator, Employee, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, Community Manager, Member, University Professor, PM ModeratorPosts:2,959Community Manager

    ok got it. Good suggestion. Thank you.

  • sgenzersgenzer 12Administrator, Moderator, Employee, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, Community Manager, Member, University Professor, PM ModeratorPosts:2,959Community Manager
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