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Converting and previewing data with csvkit

csvkit is written to process only CSV files. Therefore, the first thing we do is to convert our raw data file into CSV format.

After conversion, it's good practice to take a quick peak into the content of the file for a quick sanity check.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Processing in Shell

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Use ls to find the name of the zipped file
ls

# Use Linux's built in unzip tool to unpack the zipped file 
unzip ___

# Check to confirm name and location of unzipped file
ls
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