Chapter 11
Project 3.7: Interim Data Persistence
Our goal is to create files of clean, converted data we can then use for further analysis. To an extent, the goal of creating a file of clean data has been a part of all of the previous chapters. We’ve avoided looking deeply at the interim results of acquisition and cleaning. This chapter formalizes some of the processing that was quietly assumed in those earlier chapters. In this chapter, we’ll look more closely at two topics:
File formats and data persistence
The architecture of applications