Convert your data: Data formats

- [Instructor] One of the other most frequent tasks…you're going to have to do is, you're going to have to…convert data from one format to another.…And so for example, what you can see here is…JSON, Java Script Object Notation, and this…example looks pretty crazy, this is actually the…GDP data that we've been looking at,…and Java Script Object Notation, JSON…essentially has these curly braces…on either end of a data value.…Sometimes is has straight braces, straight brackets…also, which I'm not going to get into why that is.…

It has field names, and then a colon,…and then that fields' value,…and each individual value is separated by a comma…or each individual field rather, so I have an ID,…SL, and I have a value Sierra Leone in this case.…And so, long story short, it's just organized…this way, it's a just a text file.…There are other types of text-based data storage…formats, CSV files where every value in every field…is separated by a comma, TSVs every value…is separated by tabs, et cetera, et cetera.…

You have XML, so many different data formats,…