Chapter 13 solution: Interacting with data

In Challenge four, our job is to interact with a data set. …We're going to be using a long data set, about 2500 rows with information about …baseball teams. In fact, the data set is here on the …right on my file browser, and it's bb, for baseball.txt. …Now, if you just double click on this one right now, it opens and it just looks …like a mess. However, it is a tab delimited text file, …and we're going to do two things. Number one is we need it to be a TSV file.…

Now because it's already a text file, all we need to do, is come and click on the name. …Now, I have my system preference and options set to always show the file extensions. …That's important or you'll end up with a double extension and things won't work properly. …I'm going to change that to TSV, it says, it's going to change things and that's fine. …You see in fact, over here on the right, it now says, Type TSV file. …And this is the right kind of file that I need. …In fact, if I were to open this up in Excel, you could see the structure, so …