Feather

[Chris Gorgolewski]

I wonder if it would make sense to use a better file format for columnar data than CSV/TSV. This would make the standard more future proof. Faather looks very promising and failry mature: https://github.com/wesm/feather

Best,

Chris

[Russ Poldrack]

This seems to violate the KISS rule that has worked well for BIDS...

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[Tal Yarkoni]

Agreed—Feather looks great, but I think if we recommend (let alone mandate) a data format that Excel and SPSS can't save to, we're probably dead in the water.

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[Melissa Kline]

I tend to agree with Russ here - for many people, moving from a familiar proprietary format to anything else is going to be hard, and I suspect we'll have more success with a simple text-based format - something nice for instance is that TSV/CSV can still be opened in Excel without too much drama (not zero drama, but not a ton), which I hope will ease the transition. I still view my CSVs in Excel because it looks nice, works predictably, and helps me sort/filter when I want a quick look.

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[Rickard Carlsson]

Most people outside the open science bubble I talk to are already overwhelmed. Making things simple to adopt is priority imo.

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[Seehuus, Martin O.]

I agree that interoperability and comfort is important for adoption and use; feather seems very interesting, but I would lean much more toward a format that already has wide acceptance. 

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[Chris Gorgolewski]

At least I got everyone to agree on something ;)

Best,

Chris