The Shapes of Data: Tabular

tl;dr One of the "OG" data formats, the tabular data structure, aka "the flat file", is still today a handy and reasonable way of exchanging data in an automatable fashion without significant integration work required. Its shape is ideal for a multitude of data molecules that all share the exact same contents. Refresher In a serialized representation of the tabular format, such as a CSV file: each…