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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago

Kinda started using that with polars, force the scan/read schema as string, and down the road cast as the necessary type when needed. I'm calling it "just in time" data cleaning.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

There are two genders: string and null

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[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

make everything a string then cast all data every time you want to use that data in a variable.

[-] brashboy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If it's not getting used in a mathematical function, I'm making it a string

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