Blockbuilder Search Data | Ian Johnson | Observable
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Ian Johnson
@enjalot
pixel flipper, data sifter. trying to see what I can while I'm here
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Visnu Pitiyanuvath
Feb 2, 2021
Splitting off the duplicated author object could help a bunch for this one. Not sure how much though.
Ian Johnson
Feb 8, 2021
I just tried it, shaves it down to 77MB. removing redundant URL fields brings it down to 60MB. a lot of the rest will be all the file metadata
Visnu Pitiyanuvath
Feb 8, 2021
Related, I only mentioned that because I tried checking tsv size and it was even smaller (but couldn’t handle the nested author object).
Ian Johnson
Feb 8, 2021
yeah, the files would probably also screw with the TSV. That's why I originally made blocks-min.json so that 90% of the interesting info was available in a compact size.
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Blockbuilder Search Data | Ian Johnson | Observable