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I have downloaded spatial data from the USGS website that comes in a .dat format, which I can't read in textedit either - it just says "../ofr041189it03/vat.adf". I am familiar with STATA, ArcGIS, and GeoDA, so I was hoping to convert it into a type that can be read by any of these programs (preferably STATA), but don't know how. Any ideas?
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CSV literally means comma-separated values. Your . dat file is a CSV-file and the suffix is irrelevant as it is a text file in either case.
Most DAT files contain text, so you can open them with text editors, like Notepad, Notepad++, VS Code, and so on. If you are sure the information contained in the DAT file is a video or audio, then your media player can open it. If it's a PDF, then Adobe Reader can open it, and so on.
You can convert a . dat file to a CSV file in Python in four simple steps: (1) Install the Pandas library, (2) import the Pandas library, (3) read the CSV file as DataFrame, and (4) write the DataFrame to the file.
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