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GeorgeD88/Data-Handler

Data-Handler is a basic library that I made as a personal tool to use in my other projects to simplify handling huge data files. If you were to open a large CSV file (e.g. 100,000+ rows) and save it to a JSON file, your program would take quite a while, but even worse your data could easily end up being so big that you wouldnt be able to open the JSON file. This is where Data-Handler comes in. The other day I was attempting to convert a CSV file into a JSON file to be able to easily search through the data and mess around with it. I kept getting an unresolvable error, and it turned out that my JSON file was so big that my program was not able to open it. My file had 2,431,727 rows!! Almost 2.5 million, which is where Data-Handler came in. Instead of just importing the data and dumping it into a JSON file, Data-Handler parses every row of raw data and once it reaches a certain limit, it seals that processed data as a "chunk" and moves on. This way you end up with all of your data separated into smaller chunks, all contained in a pack of chunks. Now that your data is contained in separate chunks, you can easily dump each chunk into a JSON file. Data-Handler also implements fail safes and checks to make the data handling even easier by eliminating the need to check for conflicts, e.g. checking for existing files when dumping the data to avoid overwriting data. Data-Handler puts all of this great functionality into one easy-to-use library and does all the messy work for you.

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