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I’m developing a web platform that will show data tables and charts using highchart.
Besides there is an exporting function for user to download csv/excel file.
But i’m thinking why I should make this. It’s likely that exporting csv or excel is the standard. But is there any advantage?
I think I can export html file instead and the page will be interactive and much better than excel file. Is there anyone have idea about this problem?
A CSV allows the user greater control over how they display the data – you may see some great visualisations from your users if you give them access to these.
Likely, the people who will actually use the CSVs (which will be a small percentage) would scrape the data anyway – so offering them up saves bandwidth and increases the happiness of your userbase because they don’t have to go through the effort of writing a scraper.
It all depends on the type of data, though.