Tag: format

5 reasons to choose Delta format (on Databricks)

In this blog post, I will explain 5 reasons to prefer the Delta format to parquet or ORC when you are using Databricks for your analytic workloads. But before we start, let’s have a look at what is delta format. Delta … an introduction Delta is a data format based on Apache Par...

SwiftUI: Format Currency the Easy Way

Displaying (or accepting) a number as currency in a Text field is a common thing that we want to do in SwiftUI. In the example below, we set a State variable for holding the amount that we want to display, and use the format option to convert it to the users local currency. We are setting a fall bac...

SwiftUI: Format Percent the Easy Way

In the example below, we set a State variable for holding the amount that we want to display, and use the format option to convert it to a percentage. One important thing to note, is that using the built in formatter (like in the example below) will automatically change the format as needed for a...

Converting 3,300 Abu Dhabi Open Data Platform Datasets to the Open Data Product Specification Format

The Open Data Product Specification 2.1 was unveiled recently on 22nd August 2023. It features a JSON Schema along with a few sample data products. These samples were produced by transforming existing data products into ODPS format. Both the examples and the Schema have been made available on&n...